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CVE-2004-0590

Published: Jun 30, 2004Updated: Apr 16, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDNVD-CWE-Other
10.0CRITICAL
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
2.8%
Top 15.2%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

FreeS/WAN 1.x and 2.x, and other related products including superfreeswan 1.x, openswan 1.x before 1.0.6, openswan 2.x before 2.1.4, and strongSwan before 2.1.3, allows remote attackers to authenticate using spoofed PKCS#7 certificates in which a self-signed certificate identifies an alternate Certificate Authority (CA) and spoofed issuer and subject.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LAu:NC:CI:CA:C
Exploitability
AV:NAccess Vector
Network
AC:LAccess Complexity
Low
Au:NAuthentication
None
Impact
C:CConfidentiality
Complete
I:CIntegrity
Complete
A:CAvailability
Complete
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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

n/an/a
frees wanfrees wan
On-prem
Networking Infrastructure / vpn-gateway
super frees wanfrees wan
On-prem
Networking Infrastructure / vpn-gateway
openswanopenswan
On-prem
Networking Infrastructure / vpn-gateway
strongswanstrongswan
On-prem
Networking Infrastructure / vpn-gateway
frees wanoss-projectNetworking Infrastructureaka frees-wan, frees wan, freeswan
openswanoss-projectNetworking Infrastructureaka openswan, linux-patch-openswan
strongswanoss-projectNetworking Infrastructureaka strongman, strongswan vpn client

Exploitability

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References

http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/advisory.php?name=MDKSA-2004:070
mandrakesecure.net
http://www.openswan.org/support/vuln/can-2004-0590/
openswan.org
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200406-20.xml
security.gentoo.org
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Timeline

Published
Jun 30, 2004
Last Updated
Apr 16, 2026

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