CVE-2024-2357

medium

Description

The Libreswan Project was notified of an issue causing libreswan to restart under some IKEv2 retransmit scenarios when a connection is configured to use PreSharedKeys (authby=secret) and the connection cannot find a matching configured secret. When such a connection is automatically added on startup using the auto= keyword, it can cause repeated crashes leading to a Denial of Service.

References

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/TVQ7MZY6LFFGRWAJNTKKN2VSEFS2VPAR/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/HEM46ALKF7NG6CAUKZ7KQERVOHWQIQKY/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/EJZJYFHKBIJ4ZK5GAWWFFR3AKJS6O5JX/

https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2024-2357

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-03-11

Updated: 2024-03-23

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium