Openswan vulnerabilitiesNone on the known-exploited list.

Vendor
The short answer

Openswan has 6 published vulnerabilities across 2 products in our catalogue. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. The most affected product is Openswan, with 5. If you run Openswan software, patch the exploited flaws first.

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Products

Which Openswan products have the most vulnerabilities?

Openswan leads with 5 published vulnerabilities. Open a product to see its versions and which of its flaws criminals are already using.

  1. Openswan5
  2. Linux-Patch-Openswan1
Published vulnerabilities
Known exploited

Which Openswan vulnerabilities are being exploited?

This is the list that matters most: flaws criminals are using now.

None of Openswan's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Openswan flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 7.5%

    The Internet Key Exchange version 1 (IKEv1) implementation in Openswan 2 (openswan-2) before 2.4.4, and freeswan in SUSE LINUX 9.1 before 2.04_1.5.4-1.23, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via (1) a...

    CVSS7.8Published18 Nov 2005
  2. 1.7%

    Stack-based buffer overflow in the get_internal_addresses function in the pluto application for Openswan 1.x before 1.0.9, and Openswan 2.x before 2.3.0, when compiled with XAUTH and PAM enabled, allows remote...

    CVSS7.2Published26 Jan 2005
  3. 1.1%

    The IPSEC livetest tool in Openswan 2.4.12 and earlier, and 2.6.x through 2.6.16, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack on the (1) ipseclive.conn and (2)...

    CVSS4.4Published24 Sep 2008
  4. 0.4%

    linux-patch-openswan 2.4.12 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) /tmp/snap##### and (b) /tmp/nightly##### temporary files, related to the (1) maysnap and (2) maytest scripts.

    CVSS6.9Published6 Nov 2008
  5. 0.3%

    Openswan 2.2.x does not properly restrict permissions for (1) /var/run/starter.pid, related to starter.c in the IPsec starter, and (2) /var/lock/subsys/ipsec, which allows local users to kill arbitrary processes by...

    CVSS3.6Published20 May 2011
Every product

All Openswan products we track.

2 products, most vulnerabilities first. Find the ones you run, then open a product to see its versions and exploited flaws.

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Our catalogue lists 6 published vulnerabilities across 2 products and 93 versions from Openswan.

None of Openswan's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

Openswan, with 5 published vulnerabilities. Its own page lists the ones known to be exploited.

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