CVE-2022-23303

CRITICAL9.8EPSS 0.40%

wpa - security update

Published: 1/17/2022Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2022-23303DEBIAN-CVE-2022-23303

Description

The implementations of SAE in hostapd before 2.10 and wpa_supplicant before 2.10 are vulnerable to side channel attacks as a result of cache access patterns. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-9494.

Affected packages (3)

Alpine/hostapdfrom 0, < 2.9-r4
Debian/wpafrom 0, < 2:2.9.0-21+deb11u3
Debian/wpafrom 0, < 2:2.9.0-21+deb11u3

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (2)

ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2022-23303
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-23303