Opening this as not private version of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981607 bugreport. Additional notes: - meanwhile I tried on Fedora Gnome and it is even worst because the hotspot option uses WEP encryption; - it affects Fedora 19 too. +++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #981607 +++ Description of problem: Creating a shared AP shared wireless network, exposes the local area network to WPS vulnerability, since you create a wifi with the WPS enabled. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Setup#Security Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kde-plasma-networkmanagement-0.9.0.9-1 Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a shared wifi network in AP mode. 2. Put a WPA password 3. Pickup an Android phone or any other wifi device, you will see "WPS enabled" in the just created wireless connection properties. Additional info: I don't know if it is a kernel bug, a network-manager bug, but I start creating the bugreport for kde-plasma-networkmanagement. --- Additional comment from Germano Massullo on 2013-07-05 05:39:40 EDT --- WPS should be removed at all --- Additional comment from Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala on 2013-08-27 01:35:44 EDT --- (In reply to Germano Massullo from comment #0) > > Steps to Reproduce: > 1. Create a shared wifi network in AP mode. > 2. Put a WPA password > 3. Pickup an Android phone or any other wifi device, you will see "WPS > enabled" in the just created wireless connection properties. > afaik, you have to enter the WPA password here to join the wireless network, dont you? --- Additional comment from Germano Massullo on 2013-08-27 02:55:01 EDT --- (In reply to Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala from comment #2) > afaik, you have to enter the WPA password here to join the wireless network, > dont you? Yes you have to enter the WPA password to join the wireless network, but this is not related to the bugreport. --- Additional comment from Germano Massullo on 2013-09-19 16:00:33 EDT --- I would need to remove the security block from the bugreport, but I do not own the privileges. Could you please remove it? Thank you.
*** Bug 981607 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
There is no parameter for WPS in kde-plasma-networkmanagement (or kde-plasma-nm) so I suppose NetworkManager adds it automatically, but don't know.
It looks like wpa_supplicant's lightweight AP mode enables WPS support by default when the security is WPA-PSK, and there's no way to turn that off currently. Moving this over to wpa_supplicant, this will take changes upstream. Just to confirm, if you have another machine, can you run "iw dev wlan0 scan" on that other machine and report the output for the shared AP that you've created, so that we can see what Information Elements the shared AP is broadcasting?
BSS ***removed*** (on wlan0) TSF: 32797050 usec (0d, 00:00:32) freq: 2412 beacon interval: 100 capability: ESS Privacy ShortSlotTime (0x0411) signal: -16.00 dBm last seen: 3823 ms ago Information elements from Probe Response frame: SSID: Connessione_senza_fili_condivisa Supported rates: 6.0* 9.0 12.0* 18.0 24.0* 36.0 48.0 54.0 DS Parameter set: channel 1 ERP: Barker_Preamble_Mode RSN: * Version: 1 * Group cipher: TKIP * Pairwise ciphers: CCMP TKIP * Authentication suites: PSK * Capabilities: (0x0000) WPA: * Version: 1 * Group cipher: TKIP * Pairwise ciphers: CCMP TKIP * Authentication suites: PSK WPS: * Version: 1.0 * Wi-Fi Protected Setup State: 2 (Configured) * Response Type: 3 (AP) * UUID: ***removed*** * Manufacturer: * Model: * Model Number: * Serial Number: * Primary Device Type: 0-00000000-0 * Device name: * Config methods: Display, Keypad
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