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CVE-2017-13078

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-13078 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA and WPA2) implementations across various operating systems and vendors, including Canonical, Debian, and Red Hat. It allows an attacker within radio range to replay frames from access points to clients by re-installing the Group Temporal Key (GTK) during the four-way handshake. This attack has high integrity impact, but no confidentiality or availability impact. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.3 and an attack vector of Adjacent Network, with high attack complexity. While there is no evidence of active exploitation in the wild (not in KEV), and no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), it has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating widespread awareness. The FAUCET Risk Score is low at 21/100.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
17.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.6
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.07%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0207 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 1,749 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: wpa_supplicant-1:0.7.3-9.el6_9.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: wpa_supplicant-1:2.6-5.el7_4.1
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: wpa_supplicant

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-13078Important

wpa_supplicant: Reinstallation of the group key in the 4-way handshake

Oct 16, 2017

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2017-10/msg00020.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2017-10/msg00023.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2017-10/msg00024.html
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:2907
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:2911
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / security/vulnerabilities/kracks
Third Party Advisory
cert-portal.siemens.com / productcert/pdf/ssa-901333.pdf
cert.vde.com / en-us/advisories/vde-2017-003
cert.vde.com / en-us/advisories/vde-2017-005
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00015.html
security.freebsd.org / advisories/FreeBSD-SA-17:07.wpa.asc
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201711-03
source.android.com / security/bulletin/2017-11-01
support.apple.com / HT208219
support.apple.com / HT208220
support.apple.com / HT208221
support.apple.com / HT208222
support.hpe.com / hpsc/doc/public/display
support.lenovo.com / us/en/product_security/LEN-17420
Third Party Advisory
tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20171016-wpa
Third Party Advisory
w1.fi / security/2017-1/wpa-packet-number-reuse-with-replayed-messages.txt
Third Party Advisory
krackattacks.com
Technical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
arubanetworks.com / assets/alert/ARUBA-PSA-2017-007.txt
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3999
Third Party Advisory
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/228519
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2018-3678067.html
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2018-3236628.html
securityfocus.com / bid/101274
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1039573
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1039576
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1039577
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1039578
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1039581
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1039585
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-3455-1
Third Party Advisory