CVE-2019-9496: Fedoraproject Fedora

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An invalid authentication sequence could result in the hostapd process terminating due to missing state validation steps when processing the SAE confirm message when in hostapd/AP mode. All version of hostapd with SAE support are vulnerable. An attacker may force the hostapd process to terminate, performing a denial of service attack. Both hostapd with SAE support and wpa_supplicant with SAE support prior to and including version 2.7 are affected.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 28 only; version 29 only; version 30 only
• w1.fi Hostapd: up to and including 2.7
• w1.fi Wpa Supplicant: up to and including 2.7

Published 2019-04-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.