| Name | CVE-2022-4967 |
| Description | strongSwan versions 5.9.2 through 5.9.5 are affected by authorization bypass through improper validation of certificate with host mismatch (CWE-297). When certificates are used to authenticate clients in TLS-based EAP methods, the IKE or EAP identity supplied by a client is not enforced to be contained in the client's certificate. So clients can authenticate with any trusted certificate and claim an arbitrary IKE/EAP identity as their own. This is problematic if the identity is used to make policy decisions. A fix was released in strongSwan version 5.9.6 in August 2022 (e4b4aabc4996fc61c37deab7858d07bc4d220136). |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| strongswan (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 5.2.1-6+deb8u11 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 5.5.1-4+deb9u6 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 5.5.1-4+deb9u7 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 5.7.2-1+deb10u4 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 5.9.1-1+deb11u4 | fixed |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 5.9.8-5+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 5.9.13-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[bullseye] - strongswan <not-affected> (Introduced in 5.9.2)
[buster] - strongswan <not-affected> (Introduced in 5.9.2)
https://www.strongswan.org/blog/2024/05/13/strongswan-vulnerability-(cve-2022-4967).html
https://github.com/strongswan/strongswan/commit/e4b4aabc4996fc61c37deab7858d07bc4d220136 (5.9.6rc1)
[stretch] - strongswan <not-affected> (Introduced in 5.9.2)
[jessie] - strongswan <not-affected> (Introduced in 5.9.2)