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CVE-2006-7178

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-7178 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting MadWifi versions prior to 0.9.3. An attacker can crash an IBSS node by sending a specially crafted AUTH frame. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8, indicating high severity with network accessibility, low attack complexity, and a complete impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:madwifi:madwifi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 0.9.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:madwifi:madwifi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.8HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.60%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0260 is in the 71st percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-7178

CVE-2006-7178

References

madwifi.org / ticket/880
madwifi.org / wiki/Releases/0.9.3
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/24670
secunia.com / advisories/24841
secunia.com / advisories/24931
secunia.com / advisories/25861
secunia.com / advisories/26083
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200704-15.xml
mandriva.com / security/advisories
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/466689/30/6900/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/23431
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-479-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/1187