Description
Libreswan, via the function RSA_authenticate_hash_signature_raw_rsa(), did not correctly verify the length of the authentication hash when the SIG payload of an IKEv1 packet was encoded using PKCS #1 RSA Encryption as per RFC 2313. A remote attacker can use a variation on the Bleichenbacher attack to forge the SIG payload when small public exponents are being used (e.g., e=3), which could lead to impersonation. Additionally, a remote attacker, by encoding a shorter than expected hash in the SIG payload, could trigger an assertion leading to denial-of-service. The daemon aborts and restarts; continued exploitation causes sustained denial of service. Remote code execution is not possible. X.509 certificate verifications of remote IKE peers are not affected.
References
https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2026-50721/
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2313
Weaknesses
d42dc95b-23f1-4e06-9076-20753a0fb0df
CVSS impact metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
8.1 · High
Information
Source identifier
d42dc95b-23f1-4e06-9076-20753a0fb0df
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Published
2026-07-02T22:16:43.367Z
3 months agoLast modified
2026-07-09T15:46:40.770Z
3 months ago