A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Cisco IOS (Router Operating System) (version unknown). Affected is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cryptographic issues vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-310. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) implementation in unspecified Cisco products and other vendors products, as used in WPA and WPA2 on Wi-Fi networks, has insufficient countermeasures against certain crafted and replayed packets, which makes it easier for remote attackers to decrypt packets from an access point (AP) to a client and spoof packets from an AP to a client, and conduct ARP poisoning attacks or other attacks, as demonstrated by tkiptun-ng.

The weakness was disclosed 11/25/2008 by Martin (Website). The advisory is shared for download at lists.immunitysec.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2008-5230 since 11/25/2008. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 12/02/2017). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1600.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Cisco

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