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CVE-2015-0210 json

wpa_supplicant 2.0-16 does not properly check certificate subject name, which allows remote attackers to cause a man-in-the-middle attack.

published 9y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2015-0247

cvss
5.9
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 60%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

wpa_supplicant 2.0-16 does not properly check certificate subject name, which allows remote attackers to cause a man-in-the-middle attack.

Patch / fix

  • wpa_supplicant SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4 0.7.1-6.18.6.1
  • wpa_supplicant SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12, SLED 12 2.2-8.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:1659-1SUSE-SU-2015:1013-1

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2015-0210 updated cvss 5.4

wpa_supplicant: broken certificate subject check

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 wpa_supplicant Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 wpa_supplicant Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 wpa_supplicant
    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

0.90% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 60% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugzilla.redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178263 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • bugzilla.redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178921 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation

References

Sources

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