CVE-2025-24912

Publication date 12 March 2025

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

hostapd fails to process crafted RADIUS packets properly. When hostapd authenticates wi-fi devices with RADIUS authentication, an attacker in the position between the hostapd and the RADIUS server may inject crafted RADIUS packets and force RADIUS authentications to fail.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
wpa	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

This issue was introduced into the codebase on 2025-01-25, and was fixed on 2025-02-05. It did not make it into Ubuntu. Introduced by: https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/commit/?id=726432d7622cc0088ac353d073b59628b590ea44

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
wpa	Upstream: ?id=339

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	3.7 · Low
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L