Improper Authentication in strongSwan - CVE-2014-2338
Published: April 16, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU41794
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-2338
CWE-ID: CWE-287
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
IKEv2 in strongSwan 4.0.7 before 5.1.3 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by rekeying an IKE_SA during (1) initiation or (2) re-authentication, which triggers the IKE_SA state to be set to established.
Affected software
strongSwan
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
SUSE Linux
strongswan
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
SUSE Linux
strongswan
How to mitigate CVE-2014-2338
Install update from vendor's website.
strongswan - update to 5.1.3-1.el6
External References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00064.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00066.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57823
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2903
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66815
- http://www.strongswan.org/blog/2014/04/14/strongswan-authentication-bypass-vulnerability-%28cve-2014-2338%29.html