CVE-2015-3991 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

strongSwan 5.2.2 and 5.3.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or execute arbitrary code.

Published: 2017-09-07

Score: 9.8 Critical

EPSS: 4.5% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:5.2.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:5.3.0:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2015-4021	strongSwan 5.2.2 and 5.3.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or execute arbitrary code.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.04457.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/164276.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/164278.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76861
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222815
https://www.strongswan.org/blog/2015/06/01/strongswan-vulnerability-%28cve-2015-3991%29.html

History

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Subscriptions

Strongswan Strongswan

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-09-07T20:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T06:04:02.669Z

Reserved: 2015-05-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-3991

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-09-07T20:29:00.407

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2015-3991

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-19

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