CVE-2014-2716: Ekahau Activator

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Ekahau B4 staff badge tag 5.7 with firmware 1.4.52, Real-Time Location System (RTLS) Controller 6.0.5-FINAL, and Activator 3 reuses the RC4 cipher stream, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain plaintext messages via an XOR operation on two ciphertexts.

Affected products

  • Ekahau Activator: version 3 only
  • Ekahau b4 Staff Badge Tag Firmware: version 1.4.52 only
  • Ekahau Real-Time Location System Controller: version 6.0.5-final only

Published 2014-12-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.