CVE-2026-78132

highpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.003 · 28 %ileDEUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.35% (28th) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

5 products

Who says so?

2 sources

cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

strongSwan 5.1.3 through 6.0.7 has an infinite loop in the x509 plugin's attribute certificate parser for ietfAttrSyntax.

cvss

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

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.9–7.5

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · cve@mitre.org USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.16.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: partialcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Fedora Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:-
SUSE Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:-
SUSE openSUSEall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:opensuse:-
Open Source strongSwan< 6.1.0cert_bundDE
strongswan strongswan5.1.3 → 6.1.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2026-3230strongSwan: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2026-09-07csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, authentisierter Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in strongSwan ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service zu verursachen, Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu umgehen, Informationen offenzulegen und Code auszuführen.

Which sources assert this record, and when.

published 2026-09-11modified 2026-09-14

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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