FragAttacks
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| CVE identifiers | CVE-2020-24588, CVE-2020-24587, |
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| Discoverer | Mathy Vanhoef |
FragAttacks, or fragmentation and aggregation attacks, are a group of Wi-Fi vulnerabilities discovered by security research Mathy Vanhoef.[1] Since the vulnerabilities are design flaws in the Wi-Fi standard, any device released after 1997 could be vulnerable.[1] The attack can be executed without special privileges.[2] The attack was detailed on August 5, 2021 at Black Hat Briefings USA and at later at the USENIX 30th Security Symposium, where recordings are shared publicly.[3][4] The attack does not leave any trace in the network logs.[5] File:FragAttacks- Demonstration of Flaws in WPA2-3.webm
Patches
[edit | edit source]Vanhoef worked with the Wi-Fi Alliance to help vendors issue patches.[3]
Microsoft started issuing patches for Windows 7 through Windows 10 on May 11, 2021.[6]
References
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- ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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