CVE-2018-17540
strongswan - security update
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 3.9%
Description
The gmp plugin in strongSwan before 5.7.1 has a Buffer Overflow via a crafted certificate.
How to fix CVE-2018-17540
To remediate CVE-2018-17540, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/strongswan—upgrade to 5.7.1-r0 or later
- Debian/strongswan—upgrade to 5.7.1-1 or later
- —upgrade to 5.2.1-6+deb8u8 or later
- —upgrade to 5.5.1-4+deb9u4 or later
Is CVE-2018-17540 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 3.9%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (4)
- from 0, < 5.7.1-r0
- from 0, < 5.7.1-1
- from 0, < 5.2.1-6+deb8u8
- from 0, < 5.5.1-4+deb9u4
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |