CVE-2014-3686

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-10-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

wpa_supplicant and hostapd 0.7.2 through 2.2, when running with certain configurations and using wpa_cli or hostapd_cli with action scripts, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted frame.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 12.04, 14.04
Debian Linux: 6.0
w1.fi hostapd: 0.7.2, 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2
Canonical Ltd. wpa_supplicant: 0.72, 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0429.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-10/msg00027.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-10/msg00028.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1956.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/60366
http://secunia.com/advisories/60428
http://secunia.com/advisories/61271
http://w1.fi/security/2014-1/
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3052
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:120
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/09/28

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