Vulnerability CVE-2019-12588
Published: 2019-09-04

Description:
The client 802.11 mac implementation in Espressif ESP8266_NONOS_SDK 2.2.0 through 3.1.0 does not validate correctly the RSN AuthKey suite list count in beacon frames, probe responses, and association responses, which allows attackers in radio range to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted message.

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
3.3/10
2.9/10
6.5/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Adjacent network
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Espressif -> Arduino esp8266 
Espressif -> Esp8266 nonos sdk 

 References:
https://github.com/espressif
https://github.com/Matheus-Garbelini/esp32_esp8266_attacks
https://matheus-garbelini.github.io/home/post/esp8266-beacon-frame-crash/
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