CVE-2013-6075
strongswan strongswan: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The compare_dn function in utils/identification.c in strongSwan 4.3.3 through 5.1.1 allows (1) remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read, NULL pointer dereference, and daemon crash) or (2) remote authenticated users to impersonate arbitrary users and bypass access restrictions via a crafted ID_DER_ASN1_DN ID, related to an "insufficient length check" during identity comparison.
- EPSS
- 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 84% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- strongswan:strongswan
References
- http://download.strongswan.org/security/CVE-2013-6075/strongswan-4.3.3-5.1.0_id_dn_match.patch
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2789
- http://www.strongswan.org/blog/2013/11/01/strongswan-denial-of-service-vulnerability-%28cve-2013-6075%29.html
- http://download.strongswan.org/security/CVE-2013-6075/strongswan-4.3.3-5.1.0_id_dn_match.patch
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2789