CVE-2005-0039

medium

Description

Certain configurations of IPsec, when using Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) in tunnel mode, integrity protection at a higher layer, or Authentication Header (AH), allow remote attackers to decrypt IPSec communications by modifying the outer packet in ways that cause plaintext data from the inner packet to be returned in ICMP messages, as demonstrated using bit-flipping attacks and (1) Destination Address Rewriting, (2) a modified header length that causes portions of the packet to be interpreted as IP Options, or (3) a modified protocol field and source address.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2806

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0507

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13562

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/407774

http://www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/al-20050509-00386.html?lang=en

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/302220

http://securitytracker.com/id?1015320

http://secunia.com/advisories/17938

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111566201610350&w=2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-05-10

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02293