Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-6466

Title: Xelerance Openswan Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-6466.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jan 26, 2014

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.01%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-6466: Openswan 2.6.39 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and IKE daemon restart) via IKEv2 packets that lack expected payloads.

Impacted Vendors

openswan 1

xelerance 1

Reference Links

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0185.html http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2893 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65155 https://cert.vde.com/en-us/advisories/vde-2017-001 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90524 https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2013-6467/CVE-2013-6467.txt http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0185.html http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2893 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65155 https://cert.vde.com/en-us/advisories/vde-2017-001 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90524 https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2013-6467/CVE-2013-6467.txt

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2013-6466 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 26, 2014 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.