How severe is CVE-2019-11555?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of MEDIUM with a CVSS score of 5.9 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2019-11555?

This is classified as CWE-476, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2019-11555 - MEDIUM Severity | CVSS 5.9

Vulnerability Description

The EAP-pwd implementation in hostapd (EAP server) before 2.8 and wpa_supplicant (EAP peer) before 2.8 does not validate fragmentation reassembly state properly for a case where an unexpected fragment could be received. This could result in process termination due to a NULL pointer dereference (denial of service). This affects eap_server/eap_server_pwd.c and eap_peer/eap_pwd.c.

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