Vulnerability Report

CVE-2001-0160

Title: WaveLAN cards generate predictable WEP IVs

Weak cryptography / confidentiality compromise

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2001-0160.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jan 01, 2001

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.22%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2001-0160: Lucent/ORiNOCO WaveLAN cards generate predictable Initialization Vector (IV) values for the Wireless Encryption Protocol (WEP) which allows remote attackers to quickly compile information that will let them decrypt messages.

Impacted Vendors

orinoco 1

lucent 1

Reference Links

http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~seny/pubs/wince802.pdf http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~seny/pubs/wince802.pdf

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2001-0160 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 01, 2001 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.