Vulnerability Report

CVE-2018-16152

Title: Strongswan

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2018-16152.

CWE Category CWE-347
Published Date Sep 26, 2018
Modified Date Dec 03, 2025
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.5 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.68%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2018-16152: In verify_emsa_pkcs1_signature() in gmp_rsa_public_key.c in the gmp plugin in strongSwan 4.x and 5.x before 5.7.0, the RSA implementation based on GMP does not reject excess data in the digestAlgorithm.parameters field during PKCS#1 v1.5 signature verification. Consequently, a remote attacker can forge signatures when small public exponents are being used, which could lead to impersonation when only an RSA signature is used for IKEv2 authentication. This is a variant of CVE-2006-4790 and CVE-2014-1568.

Impacted Vendors

S
strongswan 1
D
debian 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00077.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00001.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00047.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00032.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-16 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3771-1/ https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4305 https://www.strongswan.org/blog/2018/09/24/strongswan-vulnerability-%28cve-2018-16151%2C-cve-2018-16152%29.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00077.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00001.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00047.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00032.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-16 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3771-1/ https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4305 https://www.strongswan.org/blog/2018/09/24/strongswan-vulnerability-%28cve-2018-16151%2C-cve-2018-16152%29.html
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
Severity HIGH
7.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v3.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
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:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2018-16152 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.