CVE-2021-45079

Summary

CVECVE-2021-45079
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-01-31 08:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:39:00 UTC
DescriptionIn strongSwan before 5.9.5, a malicious responder can send an EAP-Success message too early without actually authenticating the client and (in the case of EAP methods with mutual authentication and EAP-only authentication for IKEv2) even without server authentication.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 21.10 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 11.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Fedoraproject Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Application Fedoraproject Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Application Fedoraproject Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 35 All All All
Application Fedoraproject Fedora Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
strongSwan - strongSwan Vulnerability (CVE-2021-45079) MISC www.strongswan.org
strongSwan - strongSwan Vulnerability (CVE-2021-45079) www.strongswan.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 179024 Debian Security Update for strongswan (DSA 5056-1)
  • 179052 Debian Security Update for strongswan (DLA 2909-1)
  • 182285 Debian Security Update for strongswan (CVE-2021-45079)
  • 198644 Ubuntu Security Notification for strongSwan Vulnerability (USN-5250-1)
  • 282333 Fedora Security Update for strongswan (FEDORA-2022-0e87c7994f)
  • 282336 Fedora Security Update for strongswan (FEDORA-2022-b670788a8d)
  • 502237 Alpine Linux Security Update for strongswan
  • 502520 Alpine Linux Security Update for strongswan
  • 502521 Alpine Linux Security Update for strongswan
  • 502522 Alpine Linux Security Update for strongswan
  • 504440 Alpine Linux Security Update for strongswan
  • 690854 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for strongswan (ccaea96b-7dcd-11ec-93df-00224d821998)
  • 751652 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for strongswan (SUSE-SU-2022:0202-1)
  • 751668 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for strongswan (SUSE-SU-2022:0211-1)
  • 751723 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for strongswan (SUSE-SU-2022:0492-1)
  • 751743 OpenSUSE Security Update for strongswan (openSUSE-SU-2022:0492-1)
  • 753457 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for strongswan (SUSE-SU-2022:14887-1)
  • 900645 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for strongswan (8474)
  • 900930 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for strongswan (8473-1)
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