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. All version of hostapd with SAE support are vulnerable. An attacker may force the hostapd process to terminate, performing a denial of service attack. Both hostapd with SAE support and wpa_supplicant with SAE support prior to and including version 2.7 are affected.

Related CVEs

CVE-2019-9496

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-cvwc-47mg-vx9r

Published

May 14, 2022 1:01 AM

Last Modified

May 14, 2022 1:01 AM

CVSS Score

7.5 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: September 29, 2025 6:31 AM

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