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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2009-1957

charon/sa/ike_sa.c in the charon daemon in strongSWAN before 4.3.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via an invalid IKE_SA_INIT request that triggers "an incomplete state," followed by a…

MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 2.95%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.95%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

charon/sa/ike_sa.c in the charon daemon in strongSWAN before 4.3.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via an invalid IKE_SA_INIT request that triggers "an incomplete state," followed by a CREATE_CHILD_SA request.

CVSS 2.0
5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
2.95% probability · 86th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-399
Affected
strongswan/strongswan
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.