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Security Advisory - Kr00k Vulnerability in Broadcom Wi-Fi chips

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20200527-01-wifi
  • Initial Release Date: May 27, 2020
  • Last Release Date: Jul 17, 2020

There is an information disclosure vulnerability named Kr00k in Broadcom Wi-Fi chips. Specifically timed and handcrafted traffic can cause internal errors (related to state transitions) in a WLAN device that lead to improper layer 2 Wi-Fi encryption with a consequent possibility of information disclosure over the air for a discrete set of traffic. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2020-02164)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-15126.

Huawei has released software updates to fix this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link:

http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20200527-01-wifi-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

AP7030DE

V200R005C20

V200R019C00SPC800

V200R006C00

V200R006C10

V200R006C20

AP7000 V200R019C00SPC800

V200R007C10

V200R007C20

V200R008C00

V200R008C10

V200R010C00

V200R019C00

AP9330DN

V200R005C20

AP9000 V200R019C00SPC800

V200R006C00

V200R006C10

V200R006C20

V200R007C10

V200R007C20

V200R008C00

V200R008C10

V200R010C00

V200R019C00SPC800

V200R019C00



By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker may cause information disclosure.

The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).

Base Score: 3.1 (AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Temporal Score: 2.9 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:

The attacker gains access to the adjacent network.

Vulnerability details:

There is an information disclosure vulnerability named Kr00k in Broadcom Wi-Fi chips. Specifically timed and handcrafted traffic can cause internal errors (related to state transitions) in a WLAN device that lead to improper layer 2 Wi-Fi encryption with a consequent possibility of information disclosure over the air for a discrete set of traffic.

Customers should contact Huawei TAC (Huawei Technical Assistance Center) to request the upgrades. For TAC contact information, please refer to Huawei worldwide website at http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/report-vulnerabilities.

This vulnerability was publicly disclosed.

2020-07-17 V1.1 UPDATED Updated the "Software Versions and Fixes" section;

2020-05-27 V1.0 INITIAL

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