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In 2024 there have been 0 vulnerabilities in Strongswan . Last year Strongswan had 2 security vulnerabilities published. Right now, Strongswan is on track to have less security vulnerabilities in 2024 than it did last year.

Year Vulnerabilities Average Score
2024 0 0.00
2023 2 9.80
2022 2 8.30
2021 2 7.50
2020 0 0.00
2019 1 3.10
2018 6 6.97

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Recent Strongswan Security Vulnerabilities

strongSwan before 5.9.12 has a buffer overflow and possible unauthenticated remote code execution via a DH public value

CVE-2023-41913 9.8 - Critical - December 07, 2023

strongSwan before 5.9.12 has a buffer overflow and possible unauthenticated remote code execution via a DH public value that exceeds the internal buffer in charon-tkm's DH proxy. The earliest affected version is 5.3.0. An attack can occur via a crafted IKE_SA_INIT message.

Classic Buffer Overflow

strongSwan 5.9.8 and 5.9.9 potentially

CVE-2023-26463 9.8 - Critical - April 15, 2023

strongSwan 5.9.8 and 5.9.9 potentially allows remote code execution because it uses a variable named "public" for two different purposes within the same function. There is initially incorrect access control, later followed by an expired pointer dereference. One attack vector is sending an untrusted client certificate during EAP-TLS. A server is affected only if it loads plugins that implement TLS-based EAP methods (EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, EAP-PEAP, or EAP-TNC). This is fixed in 5.9.10.

NULL Pointer Dereference

strongSwan before 5.9.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service in the revocation plugin by sending a crafted end-entity (and intermediate CA) certificate

CVE-2022-40617 7.5 - High - October 31, 2022

strongSwan before 5.9.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service in the revocation plugin by sending a crafted end-entity (and intermediate CA) certificate that contains a CRL/OCSP URL that points to a server (under the attacker's control) that doesn't properly respond but (for example) just does nothing after the initial TCP handshake, or sends an excessive amount of application data.

Resource Exhaustion

In strongSwan before 5.9.5, a malicious responder

CVE-2021-45079 9.1 - Critical - January 31, 2022

In strongSwan before 5.9.5, a malicious responder can send an EAP-Success message too early without actually authenticating the client and (in the case of EAP methods with mutual authentication and EAP-only authentication for IKEv2) even without server authentication.

NULL Pointer Dereference

The in-memory certificate cache in strongSwan before 5.9.4 has a remote integer overflow upon receiving many requests with different certificates to fill the cache and later trigger the replacement of cache entries

CVE-2021-41991 7.5 - High - October 18, 2021

The in-memory certificate cache in strongSwan before 5.9.4 has a remote integer overflow upon receiving many requests with different certificates to fill the cache and later trigger the replacement of cache entries. The code attempts to select a less-often-used cache entry by means of a random number generator, but this is not done correctly. Remote code execution might be a slight possibility.

Integer Overflow or Wraparound

The gmp plugin in strongSwan before 5.9.4 has a remote integer overflow via a crafted certificate with an RSASSA-PSS signature

CVE-2021-41990 7.5 - High - October 18, 2021

The gmp plugin in strongSwan before 5.9.4 has a remote integer overflow via a crafted certificate with an RSASSA-PSS signature. For example, this can be triggered by an unrelated self-signed CA certificate sent by an initiator. Remote code execution cannot occur.

Integer Overflow or Wraparound

The Libreswan Project has found a vulnerability in the processing of IKEv1 informational exchange packets

CVE-2019-10155 3.1 - Low - June 12, 2019

The Libreswan Project has found a vulnerability in the processing of IKEv1 informational exchange packets which are encrypted and integrity protected using the established IKE SA encryption and integrity keys, but as a receiver, the integrity check value was not verified. This issue affects versions before 3.29.

Improper Input Validation

The gmp plugin in strongSwan before 5.7.1 has a Buffer Overflow

CVE-2018-17540 7.5 - High - October 03, 2018

The gmp plugin in strongSwan before 5.7.1 has a Buffer Overflow via a crafted certificate.

Buffer Overflow

In verify_emsa_pkcs1_signature() in gmp_rsa_public_key.c in the gmp plugin in strongSwan 4.x and 5.x before 5.7.0

CVE-2018-16151 7.5 - High - September 26, 2018

In verify_emsa_pkcs1_signature() in gmp_rsa_public_key.c in the gmp plugin in strongSwan 4.x and 5.x before 5.7.0, the RSA implementation based on GMP does not reject excess data after the encoded algorithm OID during PKCS#1 v1.5 signature verification. Similar to the flaw in the same version of strongSwan regarding digestAlgorithm.parameters, a remote attacker can forge signatures when small public exponents are being used, which could lead to impersonation when only an RSA signature is used for IKEv2 authentication.

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

In verify_emsa_pkcs1_signature() in gmp_rsa_public_key.c in the gmp plugin in strongSwan 4.x and 5.x before 5.7.0

CVE-2018-16152 7.5 - High - September 26, 2018

In verify_emsa_pkcs1_signature() in gmp_rsa_public_key.c in the gmp plugin in strongSwan 4.x and 5.x before 5.7.0, the RSA implementation based on GMP does not reject excess data in the digestAlgorithm.parameters field during PKCS#1 v1.5 signature verification. Consequently, a remote attacker can forge signatures when small public exponents are being used, which could lead to impersonation when only an RSA signature is used for IKEv2 authentication. This is a variant of CVE-2006-4790 and CVE-2014-1568.

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

strongSwan 5.6.0 and older

CVE-2018-10811 7.5 - High - June 19, 2018

strongSwan 5.6.0 and older allows Remote Denial of Service because of Missing Initialization of a Variable.

Missing Initialization of Resource

In stroke_socket.c in strongSwan before 5.6.3, a missing packet length check could

CVE-2018-5388 6.5 - Medium - May 31, 2018

In stroke_socket.c in strongSwan before 5.6.3, a missing packet length check could allow a buffer underflow, which may lead to resource exhaustion and denial of service while reading from the socket.

Memory Corruption

The rsa_pss_params_parse function in libstrongswan/credentials/keys/signature_params.c in strongSwan 5.6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted RSASSA-PSS signature

CVE-2018-6459 5.3 - Medium - February 20, 2018

The rsa_pss_params_parse function in libstrongswan/credentials/keys/signature_params.c in strongSwan 5.6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted RSASSA-PSS signature that lacks a mask generation function parameter.

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

Buffer overflow in the atodn function in strongSwan 2.0.0 through 4.3.4, when Opportunistic Encryption is enabled and an RSA key is being used

CVE-2013-2054 - July 09, 2013

Buffer overflow in the atodn function in strongSwan 2.0.0 through 4.3.4, when Opportunistic Encryption is enabled and an RSA key is being used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (pluto IKE daemon crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted DNS TXT records. NOTE: this might be the same vulnerability as CVE-2013-2053 and CVE-2013-2054.

Buffer Overflow

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