01 Record
CVE-2015-3240
The pluto IKE daemon in libreswan before 3.15 and Openswan before 2.6.45, when built with NSS, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon restart) via a zero DH
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: redhat
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
The pluto IKE daemon in libreswan before 3.15 and Openswan before 2.6.45, when built with NSS, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon restart) via a zero 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
- 2.78% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 85.9% 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
- 2015-11-09 16:00Z10 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 05:39Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2015-04-10
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- 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
- 5dc4d458d8077839b7a0043b67694d384b5d81ab03d444cb58c7b7f4afd2a0c8
05 Affected products
06 References
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2015:1979http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1979.html
- www.securitytracker.com1033418http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033418
- www.securityfocus.com77536http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77536
- www.oracle.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201603-13https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-13
- libreswan.orghttps://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2015-3240/CVE-2015-3240.txt
- lists.openswan.org[Openswan Users] 20150827 Openswan 2.6.45 releasedhttps://lists.openswan.org/pipermail/users/2015-August/023401.html