This attack allows the attackers to receive a WPS pin code and to connect to the network without password information. To do this, being in the field of Wi-Fi action is sufficient to prevent handshake and select offline.
The report refers to 24 devices of six manufacturers, including routers, repitters and access points. The oldest vulnerable product software 2017, ie three years after the publication of abuse.
On average, manufacturers produced such product software 7-8 years after the problem was announced.
Only four of all devices were fixed and with a big delay. 13 models are still supported, but there are no seven patches and seven have completed the life cycle without updating.
Netrise emphasizes that pixie dust cases reflect a wider problem – the inactivity of weak cryptography, opaque supply chains and manufacturers.
Source: Ferra
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