CVE-2014-3686: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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: version 10.04 only; version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 6.0 only
• w1.fi Hostapd: version 0.7.2 only; version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.1 only; version 2.2 only
• w1.fi Wpa Supplicant: version 0.72 only; version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.1 only; version 2.2 only

Published 2014-10-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.