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CVE-2017-20161 Details

Description

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in rofl0r MacGeiger. Affected is the function dump_wlan_at of the file macgeiger.c of the component ESSID Handler. The manipulation leads to injection. Access to the local network is required for this attack to succeed. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The name of the patch is 57f1dd50a4821b8c8e676e8020006ae4bfd3c9cb. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-217188.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:7.8 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CNA: [email protected]CVSS-B:4.6 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
https://github.com/rofl0r/MacGeiger/commit/57f1dd50a4821b8c8e676e8020006ae4bfd3c9cb	CVE	PatchThird Party Advisory
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.217188	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://vuldb.com/?id.217188	CVE	Permissions RequiredThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/rofl0r/MacGeiger/commit/57f1dd50a4821b8c8e676e8020006ae4bfd3c9cb	[email protected]	PatchThird Party Advisory
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.217188	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
https://vuldb.com/?id.217188	[email protected]	Permissions RequiredThird Party Advisory

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-74	Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
macgeiger project macgeiger	< 2017-12-02
CPE cpe:2.3:a:macgeiger_project:macgeiger:::::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

10 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 17, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 11, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Mar 21, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Feb 29, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 7, 2023	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Oct 20, 2023	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jan 9, 2023	Initial Analysis	[email protected]