Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA and WPA2) that supports IEEE 802.11w allows reinstallation of the Integrity Group Temporal Key (IGTK) during the four-way handshake, allowing an attacker within radio range to spoof frames from access points to clients.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2017-13079 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
This issue did not affect the versions of wpa_supplicant as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7, as CONFIG_IEEE80211W was not enabled.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS3 Base Score | 8.1 |
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CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
Attack Vector | Adjacent Network |
Attack Complexity | Low |
Privileges Required | None |
User Interaction | None |
Scope | Unchanged |
Confidentiality | High |
Integrity Impact | High |
Availability Impact | None |
Platform | Package | State |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | wpa_supplicant | Not affected |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | wpa_supplicant | Not affected |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | wpa_supplicant | Not affected |