CVE-2014-2338

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-04-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

IKEv2 in strongSwan 4.0.7 before 5.1.3 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by rekeying an IKE_SA during (1) initiation or (2) re-authentication, which triggers the IKE_SA state to be set to established.

Affected products

strongSwan: 4.0.7, 4.1.0, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.1.4 (+51)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00010.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00064.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00066.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/57823
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2903
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66815
http://www.strongswan.org/blog/2014/04/14/strongswan-authentication-bypass-vulnerability-%28cve-2014-2338%29.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00010.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00064.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00066.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/57823
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2903

Get alerted when CVE-2014-2338 or the next vulnerability affects your stack