CVE-2022-47522
The IEEE 802.11 specifications through 802.11ax allow physically proximate attackers to intercept (possibly cleartext) target-destined frames by spoofing a target's MAC address, sending Power Save frames to the access point, and then sending other frames to the access point (such as authentication frames or re-association frames) to remove the target's original security context. This behavior occurs because the specifications do not require an access point to purge its transmit queue before removing a client's pairwise encryption key.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 7.5 High
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2023-04-15
- Last modified
- 2025-02-06
- Weaknesses
- CWE-290
Affected products
- Ieee 802.11 (Ieee)
- Soho 250 Firmware (Sonicwall)
- Soho 250w Firmware (Sonicwall)
- Sonicwave 224w Firmware (Sonicwall)
- Sonicwave 231c Firmware (Sonicwall)
- Sonicwave 432o Firmware (Sonicwall)
- Sonicwave 621 Firmware (Sonicwall)
- Sonicwave 641 Firmware (Sonicwall)
- Sonicwave 681 Firmware (Sonicwall)
- Tz270 Firmware (Sonicwall)
- Tz270w Firmware (Sonicwall)
- Tz300 Firmware (Sonicwall)
- Tz300p Firmware (Sonicwall)
- Tz300w Firmware (Sonicwall)
- Tz350 Firmware (Sonicwall)
- Tz350w Firmware (Sonicwall)
- Tz370 Firmware (Sonicwall)
- Tz370w Firmware (Sonicwall)
- Tz400 Firmware (Sonicwall)
- Tz400w Firmware (Sonicwall)
- Tz470 Firmware (Sonicwall)
- Tz470w Firmware (Sonicwall)
- Tz500 Firmware (Sonicwall)
- Tz500w Firmware (Sonicwall)
- Tz570 Firmware (Sonicwall)
- Tz570p Firmware (Sonicwall)
- Tz570w Firmware (Sonicwall)
- Tz600 Firmware (Sonicwall)
- Tz600p Firmware (Sonicwall)
- Tz670 Firmware (Sonicwall)
References
- https://papers.mathyvanhoef.com/usenix2023-wifi.pdf
- https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2023-0006
- https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-23:11.wifi.asc
- https://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/passpoint