CVE-2019-9499
HIGH8.1EPSS 0.79%Published: 4/17/2019Modified: 12/3/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2019-9499DEBIAN-CVE-2019-9499
Description
The implementations of EAP-PWD in wpa_supplicant EAP Peer, when built against a crypto library missing explicit validation on imported elements, do not validate the scalar and element values in EAP-pwd-Commit. An attacker may complete authentication, session key and control of the data connection with a client. Both hostapd with SAE support and wpa_supplicant with SAE support prior to and including version 2.4 are affected. Both hostapd with EAP-pwd support and wpa_supplicant with EAP-pwd support prior to and including version 2.7 are affected.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/wpa_supplicantfrom 0, < 2.7-r2
- Debian/wpafrom 0, < 2:2.7+git20190128+0c1e29f-4
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |