Vulnerability in Ieee 802.11 Wireless Protocol
CVE-2004-0459
The Clear Channel Assessment (CCA) algorithm in the IEEE 802.11 wireless protocol, when using DSSS transmission encoding, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a certain RF signal that causes a channel to appear busy (aka "jabber"), which prevents devices from transmitting data.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.023 (82.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 83rd percentile — 82.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.023 · newest: 0.023 · change: 0.000
Affected products
References
- support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2004-009.pdf
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-05/0631.html (mailing-list)
- www.osvdb.org/16034 (vdb-entry)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.auscert.org.au/render.html (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/106678 (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16138 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/10342 (vdb-entry)