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CVE-2019-9496
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2019-04-17T14:29:03.917 · Last modified 2026-06-17T02:43:49.203

Summary

An invalid authentication sequence could result in the hostapd process terminating due to missing state validation steps when processing the SAE confirm message when in hostapd/AP mode. All version of hostapd with SAE support are vulnerable. An attacker may force the hostapd process to terminate, performing a denial of service attack. Both hostapd with SAE support and wpa_supplicant with SAE support prior to and including version 2.7 are affected.

Affected products

w1.fi — hostapd

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References

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