CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-6459
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-02-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-347
Description
The rsa_pss_params_parse function in libstrongswan/credentials/keys/signature_params.c in strongSwan 5.6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted RSASSA-PSS signature that lacks a mask generation function parameter.
Affected configurations
• strongswan strongswan 5.6.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-347 Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00047.html lists.opensuse.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-16 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.strongswan.org/blog/2018/02/19/strongswan-vulnerability-%28cve-2018-6459%29.html www.strongswan.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00047.html lists.opensuse.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-16 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.strongswan.org/blog/2018/02/19/strongswan-vulnerability-%28cve-2018-6459%29.html www.strongswan.org