CVE-2026-12413An invalidly formatted IKEv2 fragment causes the Libreswan pluto daemon to crash and restart.
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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.
- CVSS
- 7.5 HIGH (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-193, CWE-617
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- Not given
- NVD analysis
- Analyzed
- Record last updated
- Jul 8, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
libreswan libreswan libreswan:libreswan | from 4.6 before 5.3.1 | NVD |
References
- https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2026-12413/vendor-advisory
- https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2026-12413/CVE-2026-12413.txtvendor-advisory, mitigation
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