Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Feb 22, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2023-52160
CVE-2023-52160
Description
The implementation of PEAP in wpa_supplicant through 2.10 allows authentication bypass. For a successful attack, wpa_supplicant must be configured to not verify the network's TLS certificate during Phase 1 authentication, and an eap_peap_decrypt vulnerability can then be abused to skip Phase 2 authentication. The attack vector is sending an EAP-TLV Success packet instead of starting Phase 2. This allows an adversary to impersonate Enterprise Wi-Fi networks.
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Affected products
31(expand)+ 1 more
- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: <=2.10
- osv-coords29 versionspkg:rpm/almalinux/wpa_supplicantpkg:rpm/opensuse/wpa_supplicant&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.5pkg:rpm/opensuse/wpa_supplicant&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6pkg:rpm/opensuse/wpa_supplicant&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%20Micro%205.3pkg:rpm/opensuse/wpa_supplicant&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%20Micro%205.4pkg:rpm/opensuse/wpa_supplicant&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1pkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.1pkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.2pkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.3pkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.4pkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.5pkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Micro%206.0pkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%204.3pkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%204.3
< 1:2.10-5.el9+ 28 more
- (no CPE)range: < 1:2.10-5.el9
- (no CPE)range: < 2.10-150500.3.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.10-150600.7.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-150000.4.39.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-150000.4.39.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.10-6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-150000.4.39.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-150000.4.39.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-150000.4.39.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-150000.4.39.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-150000.4.39.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-150000.4.39.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-150000.4.39.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-150000.4.39.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-150000.4.39.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.10-150500.3.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.10-150500.3.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.10-150600.7.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-23.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-150000.4.39.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-150000.4.39.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-150000.4.39.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-23.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-150000.4.39.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-150000.4.39.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-150000.4.39.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.10-5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-150000.4.39.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-150000.4.39.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
7- w1.fi/cgit/hostap/commit/nvdPatch
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/02/msg00013.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QU6IR4KV3ZXJZLK2BY7HAHGZNCP7FPNI/nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.top10vpn.com/research/wifi-vulnerabilities/nvdThird Party Advisory
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N46C4DTVUWK336OYDA4LGALSC5VVPTCC/nvdMailing List
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N46C4DTVUWK336OYDA4LGALSC5VVPTCC/nvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QU6IR4KV3ZXJZLK2BY7HAHGZNCP7FPNI/nvd
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