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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-52160: Improper Authentication

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-52160: Improper Authentication

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
02/22/2024
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
06/11/2024

Description

The implementation of PEAP in wpa_supplicant through 2.10 allows authentication bypass. For a successful attack, wpa_supplicant must be configured to not verify the network's TLS certificate during Phase 1 authentication, and an eap_peap_decrypt vulnerability can then be abused to skip Phase 2 authentication. The attack vector is sending an EAP-TLV Success packet instead of starting Phase 2. This allows an adversary to impersonate Enterprise Wi-Fi networks.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-wpa_supplicant

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