CVE-2010-2628: Strongswan

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The IKE daemon in strongSwan 4.3.x before 4.3.7 and 4.4.x before 4.4.1 does not properly check the return values of snprintf calls, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted (1) certificate or (2) identity data that triggers buffer overflows.

Affected products

• Strongswan Strongswan: version 4.3.0 only; version 4.3.1 only; version 4.3.2 only; version 4.3.3 only; version 4.3.4 only; version 4.3.5 only; …

Published 2010-08-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.