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wid-sec-w-2026-0825  ·  Published 2026-03-23  ·  View on BSI CERT-Bund ↗

strongSwan: Vulnerability allows Denial of Service

CVSS 8.7 HIGH

Risk Summary

strongSwan versions 4.5.0 prior to 6.0.5 contain an integer underflow vulnerability in the EAP-TTLS AVP parser that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending crafted AVP data with invalid length fields during IKEv2 authentication. Attackers can exploit the failure to validate AVP length fields before subtraction to trigger excessive memory allocation or NULL pointer dereference, crashing the charon IKE daemon.

CVEs (1)

Affected Vendors

Debian Open Source SUSE Ubuntu

Affected Products (2)

Open Source · strongSwan <6.0.5
Open Source · strongSwan 6.0.5

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