CVE-2004-0590

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Summary

CVECVE-2004-0590
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2004-12-06 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2017-07-11 01:30:00 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

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- FreeS/WAN, Openswan, strongSwan: Vulnerabilities in certificate handling GENTOO security.gentoo.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
Openswan: CAN-2004-0590 CONFIRM www.openswan.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
MDKSA-2004:070 MANDRAKE www.mandrakesecure.net Patch, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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