WN Blog 032 – Frag Attacks

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Hey,

You might of heard about the latest WiFi security vulnerability called “FragAttacks” (Frame and aggregation attacks)

We have put this blog together to try and collate & consolidate all the information possible for you regarding this into one place. This blog will be updated with more information as we get it.

Detailed blog on Frag Attacks from Mathy Vanhoef –  https://twitter.com/vanhoefm

https://www.fragattacks.com

A really good 6 minute demo video of how these can be exploited:

The Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI) announced the coordinated disclosure of a series of vulnerabilities related to the functionality of Wi-Fi devices: https://www.icasi.org/aggregation-fragmentation-attacks-against-wifi/

White paper on FragAttack:

https://papers.mathyvanhoef.com/usenix2021.pdf

Great blog (as always) from Jim Palmer:

https://jimswirelessworld.wordpress.com/2021/05/11/fragattacks-just-reinforces-the-it-depends-complexity-of-wi-fi/

Below are the security advisory notices from some of the vendors.

It is worth just noting here quickly that Mist have already released FW upgrade versions that fixes these vulnerabilities.

Mist / Juniper:

https://www.mist.com/documentation/mist-security-advisory-fragattacks-and-faq

Cisco Systems:

https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-wifi-faf-22epcEWu

HPE/Aruba Networks

https://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/alert/ARUBA-PSA-2021-011.txt

Microsoft:

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2020-24587

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2020-24588

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2020-26144

Sierra Wireless:

https://source.sierrawireless.com/resources/security-bulletins/sierra-wireless-technical-bulletin—swi-psa-2021-003

Wi-Fi Alliance:

https://www.wi-fi.org/security-update-fragmentation

We will keep you all updated with any news as we hear it!

WiFi Ninjas

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