CVE-2016-10743

HIGH 7.5CVE-2016-10743 · Published 23/03/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-10743 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting hostapd (w1.fi).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.4%, higher than 83.8% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 2.6 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
hostapd w1.fi	`< 2.6`	`2.6`

hostapd before 2.6 does not prevent use of the low-quality PRNG that is reached by an os_random() function call.

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

< 2.6

2.6

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