CVE-2018-10811
strongSwan 5.6.0 and older allows Remote Denial of Service because of Missing Initialization of a Variable.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (6.20%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
strongSwan 5.6.0 and older allows Remote Denial of Service because of Missing Initialization of a Variable.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 6.20% probability · 93th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-909
- Affected
- strongswan/strongswan · debian/debian linux · canonical/ubuntu linux · fedoraproject/fedora
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 6.2% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00077.htmlBroken Link
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00001.htmlBroken Link
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00047.htmlBroken Link
- https://download.strongswan.org/security/CVE-2018-10811/Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UBO6ZQKLB5RY3TV7MXADFTQKXA2LUEIL/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-16Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3771-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4229Third Party Advisory
- https://www.strongswan.org/blog/2018/05/28/strongswan-vulnerability-%28cve-2018-10811%29.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00077.htmlBroken Link
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00001.htmlBroken Link
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00047.htmlBroken Link
- https://download.strongswan.org/security/CVE-2018-10811/Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UBO6ZQKLB5RY3TV7MXADFTQKXA2LUEIL/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-16Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3771-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4229Third Party Advisory
- https://www.strongswan.org/blog/2018/05/28/strongswan-vulnerability-%28cve-2018-10811%29.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.