CVE-2004-0590

highpriority · track · 41EPSS 0.028 · 87 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

2.83% (87th) EPSS

CVSS 10 · high

Is it mine?

7 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

FreeS/WAN 1.x and 2.x, and other related products including superfreeswan 1.x, openswan 1.x before 1.0.6, openswan 2.x before 2.1.4, and strongSwan before 2.1.3, allows remote attackers to authenticate using spoofed PKCS#7 certificates in which a self-signed certificate identifies an alternate Certificate Authority (CA) and spoofed issuer and subject.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

10.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.010highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 10

v2.08.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-295USLLM-inferredCWE-347USLLM-inferred

affected products (7)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
frees wan frees wan= 1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:frees_wan:frees_wan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
frees wan frees wan= 2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:frees_wan:frees_wan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
frees wan super frees wan= 1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:frees_wan:super_frees_wan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openswan openswan= 1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:openswan:openswan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openswan openswan= 2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:openswan:openswan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
strongswan strongswan≤ 2.1.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2004-12-06modified 2026-06-16

references (8)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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