CVE-2013-6466 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Openswan versions 2.6.39 and earlier, affecting products like xelerance openswan. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a NULL pointer dereference and IKE daemon restart by sending specially crafted IKEv2 packets lacking expected payloads. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium severity), it is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no publicly available exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.6.39CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:xelerance:openswan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:xelerance:openswan:2.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:xelerance:openswan:2.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:xelerance:openswan:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:xelerance:openswan:2.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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