THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2006-6332
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2006-6332

Madwifi vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
19.8%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
Stack-based buffer overflow in net80211/ieee80211_wireless.c in MadWifi before 0.9.2.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, related to the encode_ie and giwscan_cb functions.
Affected vendor
Madwifi
Affected product
Madwifi
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2006-12-10

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 19.8% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2006-6332

  • Confirm whether Madwifi Madwifi is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-6332.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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