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CVE-2018-16758

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-10-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-306

Description

Missing message authentication in the meta-protocol in Tinc VPN version 1.0.34 and earlier allows a man-in-the-middle attack to disable the encryption of VPN packets.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Starwindsoftware Starwind Virtual San: v8-build12533, v8-build12658
• Tinc-Vpn Tinc: through 1.0.34

References

• http://tinc-vpn.org/security/
• http://www.tinc-vpn.org/git/browse?p=tinc%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e97943b7cc9c851ae36f5a41e2b6102faa74193f
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4312
• https://www.starwindsoftware.com/security/sw-20190227-0003/
• http://tinc-vpn.org/security/
• http://www.tinc-vpn.org/git/browse?p=tinc%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e97943b7cc9c851ae36f5a41e2b6102faa74193f
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4312
• https://www.starwindsoftware.com/security/sw-20190227-0003/

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