VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2021-41991

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability5.30%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-10-18
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

The in-memory certificate cache in strongSwan before 5.9.4 has a remote integer overflow upon receiving many requests with different certificates to fill the cache and later trigger the replacement of cache entries. The code attempts to select a less-often-used cache entry by means of a random number generator, but this is not done correctly. Remote code execution might be a slight possibility.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-190

Primary references