CVE-2008-4551

mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.025 · 85 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

2.52% (85th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

62 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

strongSwan 4.2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via an IKE_SA_INIT message with a large number of NULL values in a Key Exchange payload, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference for the return value of the mpz_export function in the GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP).

cvss

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

5.0

010

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

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-399USprimary

affected products (62)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
strongswan strongswan≤ 4.2.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
strongswan strongswan= 2.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
strongswan strongswan= 2.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
strongswan strongswan= 2.0.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
strongswan strongswan= 2.1.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
strongswan strongswan= 2.1.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
strongswan strongswan= 2.1.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
strongswan strongswan= 2.1.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
strongswan strongswan= 2.1.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
strongswan strongswan= 2.1.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
strongswan strongswan= 2.2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
strongswan strongswan= 2.2.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
strongswan strongswan= 2.2.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
strongswan strongswan= 2.3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
strongswan strongswan= 2.3.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
strongswan strongswan= 2.3.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
strongswan strongswan= 2.4.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
strongswan strongswan= 2.4.0anvdUScpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
strongswan strongswan= 2.4.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2008-10-14modified 2026-06-16

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