CVE-2017-20161 Vulnerability Details

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CVE-2017-20161 Metadata Quick Info

CVE Published: 02/01/2023 | CVE Updated: 05/08/2024 | CVE Year: 2017
Source: VulDB | Vendor: rofl0r | Product: MacGeiger
Status : PUBLISHED

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CVE-2017-20161 Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS Version: 3.1 | Base Score: 4.6 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

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Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-ID: CWE-74
CWE Name: CWE-74 Injection
Source: rofl0r

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Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database).