CVE-2016-4477

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-19 Data Handling

Publication date:

09/05/2016

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

wpa_supplicant 0.4.0 through 2.5 does not reject \n and \r characters in passphrase parameters, which allows local users to trigger arbitrary library loading and consequently gain privileges, or cause a denial of service (daemon outage), via a crafted (1) SET, (2) SET_CRED, or (3) SET_NETWORK command.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.80

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.40 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

4.40

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.4.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:5.0.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:5.1.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:6.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:6.0.1:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.4.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:5.0.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:5.1.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:6.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:6.0.1:::::::*

CVE-2016-4477

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools