Critical severity · published Jan 17, 2022
CVE-2022-23304
The implementations of EAP-pwd in hostapd before 2.10 and wpa_supplicant before 2.10 are vulnerable to side-channel attacks as a result of cache access patterns
9.8
CVSS
1.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The implementations of EAP-pwd in hostapd before 2.10 and wpa_supplicant before 2.10 are vulnerable to side-channel attacks as a result of cache access patterns. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-9495.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.9% · higher than 80% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
35 · source: NVD
HO
Hostapd · W1.fi
before 2.10 · source: NVD
WS
Wpa Supplicant · W1.fi
before 2.10 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23304
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-23304
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YPDHU5MV464CZBPX7N2SNMUYP6DFIBZL/
security.gentoo.org
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-16
Mitigation
https://w1.fi/security/2022-1/
lists.debian.org
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00019.html
cert-portal.siemens.com
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-585531.html
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