CVE-2017-9022

strongswan: Insufficient validation of RSA public keys passed to the gmp plugin

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.9

CVSS 3.0

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Published · May 30, 2017

Updated · December 4, 2025

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.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of strongimcv as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, as they did not include support for the gmp plugin.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation