strongSwan versions 4.5.0 prior to 6.0.5 contain an integer underflow vulnerability in the EAP-TTLS AVP parser that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending crafted AVP data with invalid length fields during IKEv2 authentication. Attackers can exploit the failure to validate AVP length fields before subtraction to trigger excessive memory allocation or NULL pointer dereference, crashing the charon IKE daemon.
Weakness
The product subtracts one value from another, such that the result is less than the minimum allowable integer value, which produces a value that is not equal to the correct result.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strongswan | Ubuntu | esm-infra/xenial | * |
| Strongswan | Ubuntu | fips-updates/jammy | * |
| Strongswan | Ubuntu | jammy | * |
| Strongswan | Ubuntu | noble | * |
| Strongswan | Ubuntu | questing | * |
| Strongswan | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
References
- https://www.strongswan.org/blog/2026/03/23/strongswan-6.0.5-released.html
- https://www.strongswan.org/blog/2026/03/23/strongswan-vulnerability-(cve-2026-25075).html
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/strongswan-eap-ttls-avp-parsing-integer-underflow
- https://y637f9qq2x.com/posts/cve-2026-25075/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/03/msg00016.html