What is CVE-2018-5794?

CVE-2018-5794 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Extremewireless Wing, classified under Improper Authentication. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2018-02-05.

How severe is CVE-2018-5794?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Extremewireless Wing

CVE-2018-5794

An issue was discovered in Extreme Networks ExtremeWireless WiNG 5.x before 5.8.6.9 and 5.9.x before 5.9.1.3. There is No Authentication for the AeroScout Service via a crafted UDP packet.

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

EPSS: 0.008 (53.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Extremewireless Wing
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-287 — Improper Authentication

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-5794?: CVE-2018-5794 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Extremewireless Wing, classified under Improper Authentication. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2018-02-05.
How severe is CVE-2018-5794?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.