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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-15836

Consequently, a remote attacker can forge signatures when small public exponents are being used.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 1.52%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.52%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

In verify_signed_hash() in lib/liboswkeys/signatures.c in Openswan before 2.6.50.1, the RSA implementation does not verify the value of padding string during PKCS#1 v1.5 signature verification. Consequently, a remote attacker can forge signatures when small public exponents are being used. IKEv2 signature verification is affected when RAW RSA keys are used.

CVSS 3.0
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS
1.52% probability · 73th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-347
Affected
xelerance/openswan
Source
cve@mitre.org

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