CVE-2014-2037 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Openswan 2.6.40, specifically the xelerance openswan product. Remote attackers can exploit this flaw by sending malformed IKEv2 packets lacking expected payloads, leading to a NULL pointer dereference and IKE daemon restart. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.6.40CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:xelerance:openswan:2.6.40:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.