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CVE-2013-4564

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-4564 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Libreswan version 3.6. Remote attackers can crash the software by sending a crafted IKE packet with a small length value and either no version or an invalid major number. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, leading to a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libreswan:libreswan:3.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0264 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-4564Moderate

libreswan: DoS due to how mangled IKE packets are handled

Nov 18, 2013

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/124911.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/124928.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/124943.html
secunia.com / advisories/56276
Vendor Advisory
libreswan.org / security/CVE-2013-4564/CVE-2013-4564.txt.asc
Vendor Advisory
lists.libreswan.org / pipermail/swan-announce/2013/000007.html
PatchVendor Advisory