Multiple vulnerabilities in hostapd

Published: 2025-03-12 | Updated: 2025-03-25

Risk	Medium
Patch available	YES
Number of vulnerabilities	2
CVE-ID	CVE-2025-24912 CVE-2022-37660
CWE-ID	CWE-826 CWE-200
Exploitation vector	Network
Public exploit	N/A
Vulnerable software	hostapd Server applications / Remote access servers, VPN
Vendor	Jouni Malinen

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.

1) Premature Release of Resource During Expected Lifetime

EUVDB-ID: #VU105624

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 1.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2025-24912

CWE-ID: CWE-826 - Premature Release of Resource During Expected Lifetime

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to the affected application fails to process crafted RADIUS packets properly. A remote attacker can perform a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack and cause a denial of service condition on the target system.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

hostapd: 2.0 - 2.11

CPE2.3

External links

https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN19358384/index.html

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.

2) Information disclosure

EUVDB-ID: #VU106025

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 1.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2022-37660

CWE-ID: CWE-200 - Exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor