Skip to content

In strongSwan before 5.9.5, a malicious responder can...

Critical severity Unreviewed Published Feb 8, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 27, 2023

Package

No package listedSuggest a package

Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 31, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Feb 8, 2022
Last updated Jan 27, 2023

Severity

Critical
9.1
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-45079

GHSA ID

GHSA-8x8f-8g3r-h75g

Source code

No known source code

Dependabot alerts are not supported on this advisory because it does not have a package from a supported ecosystem with an affected and fixed version.

Learn more about GitHub language support

Checking history
See something to contribute? Suggest improvements for this vulnerability.