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CVE-2017-13078 json

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA and WPA2) allows reinstallation of the Group Temporal Key (GTK) during the four-way handshake, allowing an atta…

published 2017-10-17 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-4596

cvss
5.3
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.1%
EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 81%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA and WPA2) allows reinstallation of the Group Temporal Key (GTK) during the four-way handshake, allowing an attacker within radio range to replay frames from access points to clients.

Patch / fix

  • wpa Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2:2.4-1.1
  • firmware-nonfree Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 20180825-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-13078

  • wpa Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2.1-0ubuntu1.5
  • wpa Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 2.4-0ubuntu6.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-13078

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • wpa_supplicant RHEL 6 1:0.7.3-9.el6_9.2
  • wpa_supplicant RHEL 7 1:2.6-5.el7_4.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:2911RHSA-2017:2907

  • wpa_supplicant SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP4-LTSS +8 more 2.9-15.22.1
  • wpa_supplicant SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5 2.9-23.3.1
  • wpa_supplicant SLES for SAP 15, SLES 15-LTSS, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP2 +3 more 2.9-4.20.1
  • wpa_supplicant SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP3-TERADATA +2 more 0.7.1-6.18.3.1
  • wpa_supplicant SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for SAP 12 SP1 +8 more 2.2-15.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:1853-1SUSE-SU-2020:3424-1SUSE-SU-2020:3380-1SUSE-SU-2017:2752-1SUSE-SU-2017:2745-1

  • hostapd openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.9-6.2
  • wpa_supplicant openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.9-13.4
  • wpa_supplicant openSUSE Leap 15.2 2.9-lp152.8.3.1
  • wpa_supplicant openSUSE Leap 15.1 2.9-lp151.5.10.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10846-1openSUSE-SU-2024:11515-1openSUSE-SU-2020:2059-1openSUSE-SU-2020:2053-1

  • hostapd Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +16 more 2.6-r2
  • hostapd Alpine 3.5 2.6-r1
  • wpa_supplicant Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +15 more 2.6-r7
  • wpa_supplicant Alpine 3.5 2.6-r2
  • wpa_supplicant Alpine 3.6 2.6-r4

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2017-13078

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • wpa_supplicant Arch Linux 1:2.6-11
  • hostapd Arch Linux 2.6-6

arch linux advisories AVG-447AVG-448

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-2017-13078 updated cvss 8.1

wpa_supplicant: Reinstallation of the group key in the 4-way handshake

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 wpa_supplicant
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) wpa_supplicant 2.6-5.el7_4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) wpa_supplicant 2.6-5.el7_4.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2907
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) wpa_supplicant 0.7.3-9.el6_9.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) wpa_supplicant 0.7.3-9.el6_9.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) wpa_supplicant 0.7.3-9.el6_9.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2911
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) wpa_supplicant 2.6-5.el7_4.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2907
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) wpa_supplicant 0.7.3-9.el6_9.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2911
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) wpa_supplicant 2.6-5.el7_4.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2907

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

cisa ICSA-17-318-01 updated cvss 4.2

ICSA-17-318-01_Siemens SCALANCE, SIMATIC, RUGGEDCOM, and SINAMICS Products (Update F)

  • Siemens SIMATIC RF650M < 22.3.5.16
    affected: mitigation “Contact the RUGGEDCOM support team at:”

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.07% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 2.9 AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • Wi-Fi Alliance Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA and WPA2)

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-323 Reusing a Nonce, Key Pair in Encryption
  • CWE-330 Use of Insufficiently Random Values

References

Sources

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