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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.8

CVE-2006-7246 json

NetworkManager 0.9.x does not pin a certificate's subject to an ESSID when 802.11X authentication is used.

published 2020-01-27 6 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-7223

cvss
6.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 59%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

NetworkManager 0.9.x does not pin a certificate's subject to an ESSID when 802.11X authentication is used.

Patch / fix

  • network-manager Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.9.4.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2006-7246

  • NetworkManager openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.4.2-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10152-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2006-7246 updated cvss 4.0

(WPA-Enterprise): Verify that the certificate is from trusted CA and matches the specified subject

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 NetworkManager, wpa_supplicant Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 NetworkManager, wpa_supplicant, NetworkManager-glib, NetworkManager-gnome
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 wpa_supplicant
    under investigation
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 NetworkManager
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.88% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • bugzilla.gnome.org https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341323 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • bugzilla.novell.com https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=574266 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • lwn.net https://lwn.net/Articles/468868/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 3.2 AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation

References

Sources

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