01 Record
CVE-2013-5018
The is_asn1 function in strongSwan 4.1.11 through 5.0.4 does not properly validate the return value of the asn1_length function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
The is_asn1 function in strongSwan 4.1.11 through 5.0.4 does not properly validate the return value of the asn1_length function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.98% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 87.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2013-08-28 17:18Z13 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 16:59Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2013-07-30
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 75bc220ceb7876c18a15056a62d34c670e67cc179fb4998e42180b82d4642692
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- secunia.com54315http://secunia.com/advisories/54315
- www.securityfocus.com61564http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61564
- secunia.com54524http://secunia.com/advisories/54524
- strongswan.orghttp://strongswan.org/blog/2013/08/01/strongswan-5.1.0-released.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2013:1333http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00022.html
- strongswan.orghttp://strongswan.org/blog/2013/08/01/strongswan-denial-of-service-vulnerability-%28cve-2013-5018%29.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2013:1332http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00021.html
- lists.strongswan.org[Users] 20130729 [strongSwan] charon crash right after xauth+rsa client connects (strongswan-5.0.4, ubuntu 12.04)https://lists.strongswan.org/pipermail/users/2013-July/009540.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2013:1372http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00050.html