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CVE-2018-6459

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-02-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-347

Description

The rsa_pss_params_parse function in libstrongswan/credentials/keys/signature_params.c in strongSwan 5.6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted RSASSA-PSS signature that lacks a mask generation function parameter.

Affected products

• strongSwan: 5.6.1

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00047.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-16
• https://www.strongswan.org/blog/2018/02/19/strongswan-vulnerability-%28cve-2018-6459%29.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00047.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-16
• https://www.strongswan.org/blog/2018/02/19/strongswan-vulnerability-%28cve-2018-6459%29.html

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