CVE-2013-7294 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in Libreswan by sending a malformed IKEv2 notification, requiring an upgrade to fix.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2013-7294?
CVE-2013-7294 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 16 Jan 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The ikev2parent_inI1outR1 function in pluto/ikev2_parent.c in libreswan before 3.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (restart) via an IKEv2 I1 notification without a KE payload.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-7294?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Libreswan Libreswan.
How do I fix CVE-2013-7294?
No fix has been published for CVE-2013-7294 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2013-7294 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-7294 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
- CVE-2013-7283 Race condition in n/a
- CVE-2026-12413 IKEv2 Denial of Service via malformed fragmentation
- CVE-2026-50721 IKEv1 Denial of Service via RSA-SHA1 (PKCS#1 Version 1.5 Encrypted) authentication payload
- CVE-2026-50722 IKEv2 Denial of Service via RSA-SHA1 (PKCS#1 RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5) authentication payload
- CVE-2023-30570 Denial of service in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-g9m3-fv78-j7vg.