CVE-2014-3686

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2014-10-10
CWE:
CWE-78
Bugzilla:
1151259: CVE-2014-3686 wpa_supplicant and hostapd: wpa_cli and hostapd_cli remote command execution issue
A command injection flaw was found in the way the wpa_cli utility executed action scripts. If wpa_cli was run in daemon mode to execute an action script (specified using the -a command line option), and wpa_supplicant was configured to connect to a P2P group, malicious P2P group parameters could cause wpa_cli to execute arbitrary code.

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Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of wpa_supplicant as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 5.4
Base Metrics AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Adjacent Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (wpa_supplicant) RHSA-2014:1956 2014-12-03

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 wpa_supplicant Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 wpa_supplicant Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Jouni Malinen for reporting this issue.

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