CVE-2017-13081

Publication date 16 October 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA and WPA2) that supports IEEE 802.11w allows reinstallation of the Integrity Group Temporal Key (IGTK) during the group key handshake, allowing an attacker within radio range to spoof frames from access points to clients.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
linux-firmware	21.04 hirsute	Fixed in 1.170
	20.10 groovy	Fixed in 1.170
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed in 1.170
	19.10 eoan	Fixed in 1.170
	19.04 disco	Fixed in 1.170
	18.10 cosmic	Fixed in 1.170
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed in 1.170
	17.10 artful	Fixed in 1.169.1
	17.04 zesty	Fixed in 1.164.2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed in 1.157.14
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed in 1.127.24
wpa	21.04 hirsute	Fixed in 2.4-0ubuntu10
	20.10 groovy	Fixed in 2.4-0ubuntu10
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed in 2.4-0ubuntu10
	19.10 eoan	Fixed in 2.4-0ubuntu10
	19.04 disco	Fixed in 2.4-0ubuntu10
	18.10 cosmic	Fixed in 2.4-0ubuntu10
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed in 2.4-0ubuntu10
	17.10 artful	Fixed in 2.4-0ubuntu10
	17.04 zesty	Fixed in 2.4-0ubuntu9.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed in 2.4-0ubuntu6.2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed in 2.1-0ubuntu1.5

Notes

mdeslaur

related to intel wireless firmware issue CVE-2017-5729

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.3 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Adjacent
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.3 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3505-1
Linux firmware vulnerabilities
6 December 2017

USN-3455-1
wpa_supplicant and hostapd vulnerabilities
16 October 2017