CVE-2004-0590

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Summary

CVECVE-2004-0590
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2004-12-06 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionFreeS/WAN 1.x and 2.x, and other related products including superfreeswan 1.x, openswan 1.x before 1.0.6, openswan 2.x before 2.1.4, and strongSwan before 2.1.3, allows remote attackers to authenticate using spoofed PKCS#7 certificates in which a self-signed certificate identifies an alternate Certificate Authority (CA) and spoofed issuer and subject.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 10 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Frees Wan Frees Wan 1 All All All
Application Frees Wan Frees Wan 2 All All All
Application Frees Wan Super Frees Wan 1 All All All
Application Openswan Openswan 1 All All All
Application Openswan Openswan 2 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Openswan: CAN-2004-0590 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openswan.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/advisory.php af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandrakesecure.net Patch, Vendor Advisory
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- FreeS/WAN, Openswan, strongSwan: Vulnerabilities in certificate handling af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
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