CVE-2015-5310
The WNM Sleep Mode code in wpa_supplicant 2.x before 2.6 does not properly ignore key data in response frames when management frame…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 1.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 32% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The WNM Sleep Mode code in wpa_supplicant 2.x before 2.6 does not properly ignore key data in response frames when management frame protection (MFP) was not negotiated, which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary broadcast or multicast packets or cause a denial of service (ignored packets) via a WNM Sleep Mode response.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 32% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- USN-2808-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 1034592 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://w1.fi/security/2015-6/wpa_supplicant-unauthorized-wnm-sleep-mode-gtk-control.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-01-01.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-3397 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 77541 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20151110 wpa_supplicant unauthorized WNM Sleep Mode GTK control (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-5282 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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