CVE-2025-62291 (GCVE-0-2025-62291)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-16 00:00 – Updated: 2026-01-16 19:07
VLAI
Summary
In the eap-mschapv2 plugin (client-side) in strongSwan before 6.0.3, a malicious EAP-MSCHAPv2 server can send a crafted message of size 6 through 8, and cause an integer underflow that potentially results in a heap-based buffer overflow.
Severity
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-191 - Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
strongSwan strongSwan Affected: 4.2.12 , < 6.0.3 (semver)
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