CVE-2020-26142 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting the kernel of OpenBSD 6.6, specifically its WEP, WPA, WPA2, and WPA3 implementations. It allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to inject arbitrary network packets by misinterpreting fragmented frames as full frames. While the attack complexity is high and user interaction is required, a successful exploit could lead to significant integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and public exploit code is unavailable, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:6.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
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