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CVE-2023-52424 – New WiFi Vulnerability: The SSID Confusion Attack

by scentoni on 5/15/24, 8:15 PM with 3 comments

  • by BobbyTables2 on 5/16/24, 1:05 PM

    I don’t get it…

    Aren’t they basically saying they make an unauthenticated AP with the same SSID as the trusted network?

    If so, this isn’t a new idea, at least not in the past two decades…

    They dress it up with a MITM attack but I don’t see how MITM is useful here… They just seem to be doing direct SSID mapping without anything else going on.

    Feels like more that a less-than-desired VPN related company is trying to get attention.

  • by scentoni on 5/15/24, 8:16 PM

    > Affected software: All WiFi clients

    > Affected platforms: All operating systems