CVE-2012-2388 (GCVE-0-2012-2388)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-06-27 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:34
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The GMP Plugin in strongSwan 4.2.0 through 4.6.3 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a (1) empty or (2) zeroed RSA signature, aka "RSA signature verification vulnerability."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
11 references
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|---|---|
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027110 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
| http://osvdb.org/82587 | vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/49336 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/49315 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53752 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://www.strongswan.org/blog/2012/05/31/strongs… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/55051 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/49370 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2483 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
Date Public
2012-05-31 00:00
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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