CVE-2018-5797: Extremenetworks Extremewireless Wing

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Extreme Networks ExtremeWireless WiNG 5.x before 5.8.6.9 and 5.9.x before 5.9.1.3. There is an Smint_encrypt Hardcoded AES Key that can be used for packet decryption (obtaining cleartext credentials) by an attacker who has access to a wired port.

Affected products

• Extremenetworks Extremewireless Wing: from 5.0, before 5.8.6.9 (fixed in 5.8.6.9); from 5.9.0, before 5.9.1.3 (fixed in 5.9.1.3)

Published 2018-02-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.