CVE-2004-0590

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-12-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

Frees Wan: 1, 2
Frees Wan Super Frees Wan: 1
Openswan: 1, 2
strongSwan: through 2.1.2

References

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200406-20.xml
http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/advisory.php?name=MDKSA-2004:070
http://www.openswan.org/support/vuln/can-2004-0590/
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16515
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200406-20.xml
http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/advisory.php?name=MDKSA-2004:070
http://www.openswan.org/support/vuln/can-2004-0590/
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16515

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