UBUNTU-CVE-2022-4967 (CVE-2022-4967)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2024-05-13 18:00 – Updated: 2025-11-12 05:12 – Source website
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strongSwan versions 5.9.2 through 5.9.5 are affected by authorization bypass through improper validation of certificate with host mismatch (CWE-297). When certificates are used to authenticate clients in TLS-based EAP methods, the IKE or EAP identity supplied by a client is not enforced to be contained in the client's certificate. So clients can authenticate with any trusted certificate and claim an arbitrary IKE/EAP identity as their own. This is problematic if the identity is used to make policy decisions. A fix was released in strongSwan version 5.9.6 in August 2022 (e4b4aabc4996fc61c37deab7858d07bc4d220136).

Severity
7.7 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "charon-cmd",
            "binary_version": "5.9.5-2ubuntu2.3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "charon-systemd",
            "binary_version": "5.9.5-2ubuntu2.3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libcharon-extauth-plugins",
            "binary_version": "5.9.5-2ubuntu2.3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libcharon-extra-plugins",
            "binary_version": "5.9.5-2ubuntu2.3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libstrongswan",
            "binary_version": "5.9.5-2ubuntu2.3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libstrongswan-extra-plugins",
            "binary_version": "5.9.5-2ubuntu2.3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libstrongswan-standard-plugins",
            "binary_version": "5.9.5-2ubuntu2.3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "strongswan",
            "binary_version": "5.9.5-2ubuntu2.3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "strongswan-charon",
            "binary_version": "5.9.5-2ubuntu2.3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "strongswan-libcharon",
            "binary_version": "5.9.5-2ubuntu2.3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "strongswan-nm",
            "binary_version": "5.9.5-2ubuntu2.3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "strongswan-pki",
            "binary_version": "5.9.5-2ubuntu2.3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "strongswan-scepclient",
            "binary_version": "5.9.5-2ubuntu2.3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "strongswan-starter",
            "binary_version": "5.9.5-2ubuntu2.3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "strongswan-swanctl",
            "binary_version": "5.9.5-2ubuntu2.3"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:22.04:LTS",
        "name": "strongswan",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/strongswan@5.9.5-2ubuntu2.3?arch=source\u0026distro=jammy"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "5.9.5-2ubuntu2.3"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "5.9.1-1ubuntu3",
        "5.9.1-1ubuntu3.1",
        "5.9.4-1ubuntu1",
        "5.9.4-1ubuntu2",
        "5.9.4-1ubuntu3",
        "5.9.4-1ubuntu4",
        "5.9.5-2ubuntu1",
        "5.9.5-2ubuntu2",
        "5.9.5-2ubuntu2.1",
        "5.9.5-2ubuntu2.2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "strongSwan versions 5.9.2 through 5.9.5 are affected by authorization bypass through improper validation of certificate with host mismatch (CWE-297). When certificates are used to authenticate clients in TLS-based EAP methods, the IKE or EAP identity supplied by a client is not enforced to be contained in the client\u0027s certificate. So clients can authenticate with any trusted certificate and claim an arbitrary IKE/EAP identity as their own. This is problematic if the identity is used to make policy decisions. A fix was released in strongSwan version 5.9.6 in August 2022 (e4b4aabc4996fc61c37deab7858d07bc4d220136).",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2022-4967",
  "modified": "2025-11-12T05:12:13Z",
  "published": "2024-05-13T18:00:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-4967"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-4967"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6772-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.strongswan.org/blog/2024/05/13/strongswan-vulnerability-(cve-2022-4967).html"
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "USN-6772-1"
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2022-4967"
  ]
}



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