CVE Catalog

CVE-2004-0590

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Vulnerability in FreeS/WAN 1.x and 2.x and related products (superfreeswan 1.x, openswan before 1.0.6 and 2.1.4, strongSwan before 2.1.3) allows remote attackers to authenticate using spoofed PKCS#7 certificates. A self-signed certificate identifies an alternate Certificate Authority (CA) and spoofed issuer and subject.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can impersonate a trusted user or system, gaining unauthorized access to VPN or other protected resources.

Recommendation

Update to openswan 1.0.6 or later, openswan 2.1.4 or later, strongSwan 2.1.3 or later, or apply appropriate patches for FreeS/WAN and superfreeswan.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

FreeS/WAN 1.x and 2.x, and other related products including superfreeswan 1.x, openswan 1.x before 1.0.6, openswan 2.x before 2.1.4, and strongSwan before 2.1.3, allows remote attackers to authenticate using spoofed PKCS#7 certificates in which a self-signed certificate identifies an alternate Certificate Authority (CA) and spoofed issuer and subject.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS