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CVE-2017-20161: rofl0r MacGeiger ESSID macgeiger.c dump_wlan_at injection

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-01-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-74

Description

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in rofl0r MacGeiger. Affected is the function dump_wlan_at of the file macgeiger.c of the component ESSID Handler. The manipulation leads to injection. Access to the local network is required for this attack to succeed. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The name of the patch is 57f1dd50a4821b8c8e676e8020006ae4bfd3c9cb. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-217188.

Affected products

• rofl0r MacGeiger: before 2017-12-02 — fixed in 2017-12-02

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: rofl0r MacGeiger 2017-12-02. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/rofl0r/MacGeiger/commit/57f1dd50a4821b8c8e676e8020006ae4bfd3c9cb
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.217188
• https://vuldb.com/?id.217188
• https://github.com/rofl0r/MacGeiger/commit/57f1dd50a4821b8c8e676e8020006ae4bfd3c9cb
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.217188
• https://vuldb.com/?id.217188

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