CVE-2009-2185 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the ASN.1 parser of strongSwan and OpenSwan, affecting specific versions prior to their respective patches. Remote attackers can crash the pluto IKE daemon by providing specially crafted X.509 certificates containing malformed Relative Distinguished Names, UTCTIME, or GENERALIZEDTIME strings. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:2.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:2.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.8.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:2.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.8.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:2.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.8.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:2.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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