THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2014-9221
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2014-9221

Strongswan vulnerability

CVSS
5.0
EPSS
3.8%
EPSS pct
89th
Exploited
No known
strongSwan 4.5.x through 5.2.x before 5.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference) via a crafted IKEv2 Key Exchange (KE) message with Diffie-Hellman (DH) group 1025.
Affected vendor
Strongswan
Affected product
Strongswan
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2015-01-07

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2014-9221

  • Confirm whether Strongswan Strongswan is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2014-9221.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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