Description
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.
References
https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2026-12413/
https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2026-12413/CVE-2026-12413.txt
Weaknesses
d42dc95b-23f1-4e06-9076-20753a0fb0df
CVSS impact metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
7.5 · High
Information
Source identifier
d42dc95b-23f1-4e06-9076-20753a0fb0df
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Published
2026-07-02T22:16:42.517Z
3 months agoLast modified
2026-07-08T18:52:42.920Z
3 months ago