Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-37660

Medium

Published: 11 February 2025

Published
11 February 2025
Modified
03 November 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0018 39.0th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-37660 is a medium-severity Reusing a Nonce, Key Pair in Encryption (CWE-323) vulnerability in W1.Fi Hostapd. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 39.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In hostapd 2.10 and earlier, the PKEX code remains active even after a successful PKEX association. An attacker that successfully bootstrapped public keys with another entity using PKEX in the past, will be able to subvert a future bootstrapping by…

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passively observing public keys, re-using the encrypting element Qi and subtracting it from the captured message M (X = M - Qi). This will result in the public ephemeral key X; the only element required to subvert the PKEX association.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

w1.fi
hostapd
≤ 2.10

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References