{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2016-05-02T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "wpa_supplicant: local configuration update allows privilege escalation",
    "id" : "1332423",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1332423"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "4.4",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P",
    "status" : "draft"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "7.0",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "status" : "draft"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-88",
  "details" : [ "wpa_supplicant 0.4.0 through 2.5 does not reject \\n and \\r characters in passphrase parameters, which allows local users to trigger arbitrary library loading and consequently gain privileges, or cause a denial of service (daemon outage), via a crafted (1) SET, (2) SET_CRED, or (3) SET_NETWORK command." ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "wpa_supplicant",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "wpa_supplicant",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "wpa_supplicant",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4477\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4477\nhttp://w1.fi/security/2016-1/" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2016-4477",
  "csaw" : false
}