CVE-2017-20161CWE-74

rofl0r MacGeiger ESSID macgeiger.c dump_wlan_at injection

Medium · published January 2, 2023

CVSS v3.1
4.6
EPSS
1%
Percentile
42.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in rofl0r MacGeiger. Affected is the function dump_wlan_at of the file macgeiger.c of the component ESSID Handler. The manipulation leads to injection. Access to the local network is required for this attack to succeed. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The name of the patch is 57f1dd50a4821b8c8e676e8020006ae4bfd3c9cb. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-217188.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.6 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00519 · 42.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-74 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')
Published
2023-01-02T15:48Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 02 JAN 15:48Z
    rofl0r MacGeiger ESSID macgeiger.c dump_wlan_at injection
    cvelistv5