The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202405-08 (strongSwan: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

  - The in-memory certificate cache in strongSwan before 5.9.4 has a remote integer overflow upon receiving     many requests with different certificates to fill the cache and later trigger the replacement of cache     entries. The code attempts to select a less-often-used cache entry by means of a random number generator,     but this is not done correctly. Remote code execution might be a slight possibility. (CVE-2021-41991)

  - In strongSwan before 5.9.5, a malicious responder can send an EAP-Success message too early without     actually authenticating the client and (in the case of EAP methods with mutual authentication and EAP-only     authentication for IKEv2) even without server authentication. (CVE-2021-45079)

  - strongSwan before 5.9.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service in the revocation plugin by     sending a crafted end-entity (and intermediate CA) certificate that contains a CRL/OCSP URL that points to     a server (under the attacker's control) that doesn't properly respond but (for example) just does nothing     after the initial TCP handshake, or sends an excessive amount of application data. (CVE-2022-40617)

  - strongSwan 5.9.8 and 5.9.9 potentially allows remote code execution because it uses a variable named     public for two different purposes within the same function. There is initially incorrect access control,     later followed by an expired pointer dereference. One attack vector is sending an untrusted client     certificate during EAP-TLS. A server is affected only if it loads plugins that implement TLS-based EAP     methods (EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, EAP-PEAP, or EAP-TNC). This is fixed in 5.9.10. (CVE-2023-26463)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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GLSA-202405-08 : strongSwan: Multiple Vulnerabilities

critical Nessus Plugin ID 194978

Version 1.0