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THREAT OPSThreat News › [NVD] CVE-2022-37660 (MEDIUM 6.5) — In hostapd 2.10 and earlier, the PKEX code remains active even after a successful PKEX association. An attacker that successfully bootstrapped public keys with another entity using PKEX in the past, will be able to subvert a future bootstrapping by passively observing public keys

[NVD] CVE-2022-37660 (MEDIUM 6.5) — In hostapd 2.10 and earlier, the PKEX code remains active even after a successful PKEX association. An attacker that successfully bootstrapped public keys with another entity using PKEX in the past, will be able to subvert a future bootstrapping by passively observing public keys

lownvdPublished 2025-02-11

CVE-2022-37660 CVSS: 6.5 MEDIUM Published: 2025-02-11T23:15:08.140

In hostapd 2.10 and earlier, the PKEX code remains active even after a successful PKEX association. An attacker that successfully bootstrapped public keys with another entity using PKEX in the past, will be able to subvert a future bootstrapping by passively observing public keys, re-using the encrypting element Qi and subtracting

Indicators of compromise

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-37660