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CVE-2026-12413 (GCVE-0-2026-12413)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-02 21:19 – Updated: 2026-07-07 17:02
VLAI
Title
IKEv2 Denial of Service via malformed fragmentation
Summary
An invalidly formatted IKEv2 fragment causes the Libreswan pluto daemon to crash and restart. Continued exploitation would cause a denial of service. The function reassemble_v2_incoming_fragments() would ignore unknown outer payloads but still store these in a fixed size array msg_digest.digest[PAYLIMIT]. An off-by-one error in the assertion PASSERT(logger, md->digest_roof < elemsof(md->digest)) causes the daemon to abort. No remote code execution is possible. Any configuration that allows IKEv2 connections that do not set fragmentation=no are vulnerable. IKEv1 is not affected.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-06 18:12 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
The Libreswan Project libreswan Affected: 4.6 , ≤ 5.3 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.3.1 (semver)
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Credits
Hu Xinyao
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