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CVE-2010-2628
The IKE daemon in strongSwan 4.3.x before 4.3.7 and 4.4.x before 4.4.1 does not properly check the return values of snprintf calls, which…
High7.5EPSS 4.0%
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- mitre
Description
The IKE daemon in strongSwan 4.3.x before 4.3.7 and 4.4.x before 4.4.1 does not properly check the return values of snprintf calls, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted (1) certificate or (2) identity data that triggers buffer overflows.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.0% · top 9.3% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (14)
- ADV-2010-2086 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- [opensuse-updates] 20100810 openSUSE-SU-2010:0496-1 (important): strongswan: fixing snprintf overflows (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [users] 20100802 ANNOUNCE: strongswan-4.4.1 released (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://download.strongswan.org/patches/08_snprintf_patch/strongswan-4.3.4_snprintf.patch (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2010-2085 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 1024338 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://download.strongswan.org/patches/08_snprintf_patch/strongswan-4.4.0_snprintf.patch (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://download.strongswan.org/patches/08_snprintf_patch/strongswan-4.3.6_snprintf.patch (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://download.strongswan.org/patches/08_snprintf_patch/strongswan-4.3.3_snprintf.patch (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 40956 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 42444 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/615915 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://trac.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/441 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://download.strongswan.org/patches/08_snprintf_patch/strongswan-4.3.5_snprintf.patch (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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