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CVE-2020-26142

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-05-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-74

Description

An issue was discovered in the kernel in OpenBSD 6.6. The WEP, WPA, WPA2, and WPA3 implementations treat fragmented frames as full frames. An adversary can abuse this to inject arbitrary network packets, independent of the network configuration.

Affected products

• OpenBSD: 6.6

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/11/12
• https://github.com/vanhoefm/fragattacks/blob/master/SUMMARY.md
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-wifi-faf-22epcEWu
• https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisories/12602-security-advisory-63
• https://www.fragattacks.com
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/11/12
• https://github.com/vanhoefm/fragattacks/blob/master/SUMMARY.md
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-wifi-faf-22epcEWu
• https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisories/12602-security-advisory-63
• https://www.fragattacks.com

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