CVE-2022-23304

CRITICAL

hostapd and wpa_supplicant < 2.10 - Side-Channel Attack via EAP-pwd Cache Access Patterns

Title source: llm

Description

The implementations of EAP-pwd 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-2019-9495.

References (4)

Core 4

Core References

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YPDHU5MV464CZBPX7N2SNMUYP6DFIBZL/

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-16

Mitigation, Patch, Third Party Advisory

https://w1.fi/security/2022-1/

Mailing List

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00019.html

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8

EPSS 0.0009

EPSS Percentile 26.0%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-203

Status published

Products (3)

fedoraproject/fedora 35

w1.fi/hostapd < 2.10

w1.fi/wpa_supplicant < 2.10

Published Jan 17, 2022

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026