Re: On WPA3 successful reconnect with wrong password after a forget network

James Prestwood <[email protected]> Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:41:29 -0700
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.iwd
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Bryce,

On 3/19/26 9:43 AM, Bryce Johnson wrote:
> Hi All,
> We ran into this edge case issue on only wpa3. If we forget a network
> and reconnect to the same network with an the incorrect password, it
> will connect anyways.  wpa1 and wpa2 don't reconnect.  This is on IWD
> 3.10.
>
Thanks for the report. I'm able to reproduce this as well. The issue is 
that with PMKSA we can see we got a match for a given SSID/MAC which 
totally bypasses the use of the passphrase, despite it being asked for. 
What we need to do is wipe all PMKSA entries for an SSID when the 
profile is removed.

Thanks,

James