CVE-2026-12413
HIGHlibreswan - IKEv2 Denial of Service via Malformed Fragmentation
Title source: ruleDescription
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 (2)
Core 2
Core References
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0060
EPSS Percentile
45.2%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-193
CWE-617
Status
published
Products (3)
libreswan/libreswan
4.6 - 5.3.1
The Libreswan Project/libreswan
4.6 - 5.3
The Libreswan Project/libreswan
5.3.1
Published
Jul 02, 2026
Tracked Since
Jul 03, 2026