Libreswan
CVE-2019-10155
LOW
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A08:2025 - Software or Data Integrity Failures
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Integrity verification
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| Impact | CVSS score of 3.1 (LOW). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, high complexity, low privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | This vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network. Successful exploitation could compromise the low-severity affected system. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
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. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable.
RemediationAI
A vendor patch is available. Apply the latest security update as soon as possible. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
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This vulnerability is classified under CWE-354. 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.29. Affected products include: Libreswan, Strongswan, Xelerance Openswan, Fedoraproject Fedora, Redhat Enterprise Linux. Version information: before 3.29..
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
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.
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Attack Technique
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
Race condition in the libreswan.spec files for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Fedora packages in libreswan 3.6 has
In Libreswan 3.27 an assertion failure can lead to a pluto IKE daemon restart. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vuln
Libreswan 4.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assert failure and daemon restart) via crafted TS pa
The ikev2parent_inI1outR1 function in pluto/ikev2_parent.c in libreswan before 3.7 allows remote attackers to cause a de
Libreswan 3.16 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon restart) via an IKEv2 aes_xcbc transfor
programs/pluto/ikev1.c in libreswan before 3.17 retransmits in initial-responder states, which allows remote attackers t
libreswan before 3.18 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and pluto daemon re
Denial of service in the Libreswan IPsec VPN's pluto daemon allows remote unauthenticated attackers to crash and repeate
Unauthenticated remote denial of service in Libreswan's pluto IKE daemon allows any network attacker to repeatedly crash
pluto in Libreswan before 4.11 allows a denial of service (responder SPI mishandling and daemon crash) via unauthenticat
A vulnerability was found in the libreswan library. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely explo
An out-of-bounds buffer read flaw was found in the pluto daemon of libreswan from versions 3.27 till 3.31 where, an unau
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