Wpa Supplicant vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.

Product75 versions
The short answer

Wpa Supplicant is made by W1.fi. We track 39 published vulnerabilities in it, across 75 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Wpa Supplicant, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.

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Known exploited

Which Wpa Supplicant vulnerabilities are being exploited?

This is the list that matters most: flaws criminals are using now.

None of Wpa Supplicant's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Wpa Supplicant flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 5.2%

    Heap-based buffer overflow in wpa_supplicant 1.0 through 2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), read memory, or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted SSID information in a management...

    CVSS5.8Published28 Apr 2015
  2. 5.0%

    The implementations of EAP-PWD in hostapd EAP Server and wpa_supplicant EAP Peer do not validate the scalar and element values in EAP-pwd-Commit.

    CVSS8.1Published17 Apr 2019
  3. 4.9%

    wpa_supplicant and hostapd 0.7.2 through 2.2, when running with certain configurations and using wpa_cli or hostapd_cli with action scripts, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted frame.

    CVSS6.8Published16 Oct 2014
  4. 4.7%

    An invalid authentication sequence could result in the hostapd process terminating due to missing state validation steps when processing the SAE confirm message when in hostapd/AP mode.

    CVSS7.5Published17 Apr 2019
  5. 4.6%

    Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA and WPA2) that supports IEEE 802.11r allows reinstallation of the Pairwise Transient Key (PTK) Temporal Key (TK) during the fast BSS transmission (FT) handshake, allowing an attacker...

    CVSS8.1Published17 Oct 2017
  6. 4.2%

    Integer underflow in the WMM Action frame parser in hostapd 0.5.5 through 2.4 and wpa_supplicant 0.7.0 through 2.4, when used for AP mode MLME/SME functionality, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service...

    CVSS4.3Published15 Jun 2015
  7. 3.9%

    The implementations of SAE in hostapd and wpa_supplicant are vulnerable to side channel attacks as a result of observable timing differences and cache access patterns.

    CVSS5.9Published17 Apr 2019
  8. 3.5%

    The implementations of EAP-PWD in hostapd and wpa_supplicant are vulnerable to side-channel attacks as a result of cache access patterns.

    CVSS3.7Published17 Apr 2019
  9. 3.5%

    The EAP-pwd server and peer implementation in hostapd and wpa_supplicant 1.0 through 2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted (1) Commit or (2) Confirm...

    CVSS5.0Published15 Jun 2015
  10. 3.5%

    The EAP-pwd peer implementation in hostapd and wpa_supplicant 1.0 through 2.4 does not clear the L (Length) and M (More) flags before determining if a response should be fragmented, which allows remote attackers to...

    CVSS5.0Published15 Jun 2015
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We track 39 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Wpa Supplicant, across 75 versions.

None of Wpa Supplicant's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

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