CVE-2020-24587
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- May 11, 2021
- Updated
- Aug 4, 2024
- Reserved
- Aug 21, 2020
Description
The 802.11 standard that underpins Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA, WPA2, and WPA3) and Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) doesn't require that all fragments of a frame are encrypted under the same key. An adversary can abuse this to decrypt selected fragments when another device sends fragmented frames and the WEP, CCMP, or GCMP encryption key is periodically renewed.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00473.html
- 20210511 Multiple Vulnerabilities in Frame Aggregation and Fragmentation Implementations of 802.11 Specification Affecting Cisco Products: May 2021vendor-advisory
- https://www.fragattacks.com/
- https://github.com/vanhoefm/fragattacks/blob/master/SUMMARY.md
- [oss-security] 20210511 various 802.11 security issues - fragattacks.commailing-list
- [debian-lts-announce] 20210623 [SECURITY] [DLA 2689-1] linux security updatemailing-list
- [debian-lts-announce] 20210623 [SECURITY] [DLA 2690-1] linux-4.19 security updatemailing-list
- https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisories/12602-security-advisory-63
- [debian-lts-announce] 20230401 [SECURITY] [DLA 3380-1] firmware-nonfree LTS new upstream version (security updates and newer firmware for Linux 5.10)mailing-list
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