CVE-2006-7180: Madwifi

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ieee80211_output.c in MadWifi before 0.9.3 sends unencrypted packets before WPA authentication succeeds, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information (related to network structure), and possibly cause a denial of service (disrupted authentication) and conduct spoofing attacks.

Affected products

• Madwifi Madwifi: up to and including 0.9.2

Published 2007-03-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.