CVE-2014-2891
strongSwan before 5.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and IKE daemon crash) via a crafted ID_DER_ASN1_DN ID payload.
02 Description
strongSwan before 5.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and IKE daemon crash) via a crafted ID_DER_ASN1_DN ID payload.
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
- 2.51% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 84.4% 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 2026-06-17.
- 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
- 2014-05-07 10:00Z12 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 10:28Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2014-04-17
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 71efaa306ac0d3b010d154fa8b9c3f45f1e07a01f4cf2dd977bc3213cd66fef8
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com59864http://secunia.com/advisories/59864
- www.debian.orgDSA-2922http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2922
- www.securityfocus.com67212http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67212
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2014:0697http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00064.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2014:0700http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00066.html
- www.strongswan.orghttp://www.strongswan.org/blog/2014/05/05/strongswan-denial-of-service-vulnerability-%28cve-2014-2891%29.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- strongswan Fixed in 5.1.2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- strongswan Fixed in 5.1.2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- strongswan Fixed in 5.1.2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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