Denial of Service Vulnerability in hostapd with SAE Support

CVE-2019-9496 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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