CVE-2014-9221
strongSwan 4.5.x through 5.2.x before 5.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference) via a crafted IKEv2 Key Exchange (KE) message with Diffie-Hellman (DH)
02 Description
strongSwan 4.5.x through 5.2.x before 5.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference) via a crafted IKEv2 Key Exchange (KE) message with Diffie-Hellman (DH)
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
- 3.82% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 89.6% 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
- 2015-01-07 19:00Z11 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 13:40Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2014-12-02
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- dc0a56b22a1634f914d196a6bff364729b9d6531030cfec28706f15c38b71c40
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com62095http://secunia.com/advisories/62095
- strongswan.orghttp://strongswan.org/blog/2015/01/05/strongswan-denial-of-service-vulnerability-%28cve-2014-9221%29.html
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-2450-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2450-1
- www.debian.orgDSA-3118http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3118
- secunia.com62071http://secunia.com/advisories/62071
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2015-3043http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153825.html
- secunia.com62663http://secunia.com/advisories/62663
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2015:0114http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00054.html
- strongswan.orghttp://strongswan.org/blog/2015/01/05/strongswan-5.2.2-released.html
- secunia.com62083http://secunia.com/advisories/62083
- www.securityfocus.com71894http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71894
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- strongswan Fixed in 5.2.1-5
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- strongswan Fixed in 5.2.1-5
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- strongswan Fixed in 5.2.1-5
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- strongswan Fixed in 5.1.2-0ubuntu2.2
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.