CVE-2009-2185: Strongswan

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ASN.1 parser (pluto/asn1.c, libstrongswan/asn1/asn1.c, libstrongswan/asn1/asn1_parser.c) in (a) strongSwan 2.8 before 2.8.10, 4.2 before 4.2.16, and 4.3 before 4.3.2; and (b) openSwan 2.6 before 2.6.22 and 2.4 before 2.4.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (pluto IKE daemon crash) via an X.509 certificate with (1) crafted Relative Distinguished Names (RDNs), (2) a crafted UTCTIME string, or (3) a crafted GENERALIZEDTIME string.

Affected products

• Strongswan Strongswan: version 2.8.0 only; version 2.8.1 only; version 2.8.2 only; version 2.8.3 only; version 2.8.4 only; version 2.8.5 only; …
• Xelerance Openswan: version 2.4.0 only; version 2.4.1 only; version 2.4.2 only; version 2.4.3 only; version 2.4.4 only; version 2.4.5 only; …

Published 2009-06-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.