An invalidly formatted IKEv2 fragment causes the Libreswan pluto daemon to crash and restart. Continued exploitation would cause a denial of service. The function reassemble_v2_incoming_fragments() would ignore unknown outer payloads but still store these in a fixed size array msg_digest.digest[PAYLIMIT]. An off-by-one error in the assertion PASSERT(logger, md->digest_roof < elemsof(md->digest)) causes the daemon to abort. No remote code execution is possible. Any configuration that allows IKEv2 connections that do not set fragmentation=no are vulnerable. IKEv1 is not affected.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 2
- https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2026-12413/ Vendor Advisory
- https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2026-12413/CVE-2026-12413.txt Vendor Advisory, Mitigation
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.5 · libreswanNVD modified 2026-10-25 21:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:libreswan:libreswan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 2
- https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2026-12413/ Vendor Advisory
- https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2026-12413/CVE-2026-12413.txt Vendor Advisory, Mitigation