suse · CVE-2019-9498

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Priority: high Published: 2021-05-30 14:25:42 UTC Updated: 2026-03-05 06:22:22 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2019-9498 severity important: SUSE including 23 source package names (hostapd-2.9-bp150.15.1, hostapd-2.9-bp151.5.3.1, …), 78 product×package rows across 75 product lines (Container rancher/elemental-teal-rt/5.3, Container rancher/elemental-teal-rt/5.4, … (75 product lines)): Fixed 69, Known Not Affected 9.

Description:

The implementations of EAP-PWD in hostapd EAP Server, 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 be able to use invalid scalar/element values to complete authentication, gaining session key and network access without needing or learning the password. 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.

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