strongSwan strongSwan

CVE-2026-78135
MEDIUM 5.6

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.42 % · percentile 37 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
mitre
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

libcharon in strongSwan 5.9.7 through 6.0.7 mishandles behavioral workflow in the IKEv2 state machine. Because CREATE_CHILD_SA requests are mishandled, there can be an authentication bypass.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-841 — Improper Enforcement of Behavioral Workflow

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Lmitre
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LNVD · cve@mitre.org (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
strongSwan · strongSwanaffected 5.9.7 < 6.1.0

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD