CVE-2017-9022

high

Published 2017-06-08 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

The gmp plugin in strongSwan before 5.5.3 does not properly validate RSA public keys before calling mpz_powm_sec, which allows remote peers to cause a denial of service (floating point exception and process crash) via a crafted certificate.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Ubuntu Affected 4 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
17.04	Affected	—
16.10	Affected	—
16.04	Affected	—
14.04	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 7 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`5.5.1-4`
sid	Fixed	`5.5.1-4`
forky	Fixed	`5.5.1-4`
bullseye	Fixed	`5.5.1-4`
bookworm	Fixed	`5.5.1-4`
9.0	Affected	—
8.0	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
strongswan	strongswan	`{"endIncluding":"5.5.2"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.