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CVE-2022-23303

Published: Jan 17, 2022Updated: Nov 3, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-203
NVD MITRE
9.8CVSSCRITICAL
EPSS Score
2.9%
Top 14.7%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

The implementations of SAE 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-2019-9494.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:HI:HA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
High
I:HIntegrity
High
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-203

Affected Products

n/an/a
Red Hat Enterprise LinuxRed Hat Inc.
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Debian GNU/LinuxСообщество свободного программного обеспечения
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
WPA SupplicantJouni Malinen
Embedded
Networking Infrastructure / network-management
OpenSUSE LeapNovell Inc.
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
red hat inc.commercialUSOperating Systemsaka red hat
сообщество свободного программного обеспеченияoss-projectOperating Systemsaka сообщество свободного программного обеспечения, fsf
jouni malinenindividual-devNetworking Infrastructureaka hostapd, wpa_supplicant
novell inc.commercialUSOperating Systems
and 11 more affected products View all →

Attack Graph

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available
Workaround Available

MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
Discovery
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References

https://w1.fi/security/2022-1/
w1.fi
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YPDHU5MV464CZBPX7N2SNMUYP6DFIBZL/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-16
security.gentoo.org
and 16 more references View all →

Timeline

Published
Jan 17, 2022
Last Updated
Nov 3, 2025

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