Tropos Wireless Mesh Routers

Vulnerabilities 1

• Medium 6.1
  CVE-2012-4898

  Tropos Wireless Mesh Routers Insufficient Entropy

  Mesh OS before 7.9.1.1 on Tropos wireless mesh routers does not use a sufficient source of entropy for SSH keys, which makes it easier for man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof a device or modify a client-server data stream by leveraging knowledge of a key fro…

  Tropos Mesh OS
  Dec 18, 2012

Revision history

1. 2025-06-06 #2

   Advisory converted into a CSAF

2. 2012-07-27 #1

   Initial Publication

References

• ICS Advisory ICSA-12-297-01 - Web Version
  https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-12-297-01
• Recommended Practices
  https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/alerts/ICS-ALERT-10-301-01
• Recommended Practices
  https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/ics-recommended-practices
• Recommended Practices
  https://www.cisa.gov/topics/industrial-control-systems
• Recommended Practices
  https://us-cert.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/recommended_practices/NCCIC_ICS-CERT_Defense_in_Depth_2016_S508C.pdf
• Recommended Practices
  https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/Cybersecurity_Best_Practices_for_Industrial_Control_Systems.pdf
• Recommended Practices
  https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/tips/ICS-TIP-12-146-01B
• Recommended Practices
  https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/sites/default/files/publications/emailscams0905.pdf
• Recommended Practices
  https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/tips/ST04-014