CVE-2019-9496
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-9496
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-9496.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2019-9496
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2019-04-17T14:29:03Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T19:01:27Z
- Severity
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- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
- References
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- https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:03.wpa.asc
- https://w1.fi/security/2019-3/
- https://www.synology.com/security/advisory/Synology_SA_19_16
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-02/msg00021.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152914/FreeBSD-Security-Advisory-FreeBSD-SA-19-03.wpa.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/56OBBOJJSKRTDGEXZOVFSTP4HDSDBLAE/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SVMJOFEYBGXZLFF5IOLW67SSOPKFEJP3/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TDOZGR3T7FVO5JSZWK2QPR7AOFIEJTIZ/
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/40