CVE-2024-2357

Published Mar 11, 2024

Last updated 3 months ago

Overview

Description
The Libreswan Project was notified of an issue causing libreswan to restart under some IKEv2 retransmit scenarios when a connection is configured to use PreSharedKeys (authby=secret) and the connection cannot find a matching configured secret. When such a connection is automatically added on startup using the auto= keyword, it can cause repeated crashes leading to a Denial of Service.
Source
d42dc95b-23f1-4e06-9076-20753a0fb0df
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
6.5
Impact score
3.6
Exploitability score
2.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity
MEDIUM

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