CVE-2016-4476
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.67%wpa - security update
Published: 5/9/2016Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
hostapd 0.6.7 through 2.5 and wpa_supplicant 0.6.7 through 2.5 do not reject \n and \r characters in passphrase parameters, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon outage) via a crafted WPS operation.
Affected packages (3)
- Alpine/wpa_supplicantfrom 0, < 2.5-r3
- Debian/wpafrom 0, < 2.3-2.4
- Debian/wpafrom 0, < 1.0-3+deb7u4
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |