Import Source
https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-91773.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-91773
Upstream
Published
2026-07-02T22:16:43Z
Modified
2026-09-20T05:33:47Z
Summary
CVE-2026-50721 affecting package libreswan for versions less than 4.15-2
Details

Libreswan, via the function RSA_authenticate_hash_signature_raw_rsa(), did not correctly verify the length of the authentication hash when the SIG payload of an IKEv1 packet was encoded using PKCS #1 RSA Encryption as per RFC 2313. A remote attacker can use a variation on the Bleichenbacher attack to forge the SIG payload when small public exponents are being used (e.g., e=3), which could lead to impersonation. Additionally, a remote attacker, by encoding a shorter than expected hash in the SIG payload, could trigger an assertion leading to denial-of-service. The daemon aborts and restarts; continued exploitation causes sustained denial of service. Remote code execution is not possible. X.509 certificate verifications of remote IKE peers are not affected.

References

Affected packages

Azure Linux:3 / libreswan

Package

Name
libreswan
Purl
pkg:rpm/azure-linux/libreswan

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.15-2

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-91773.json"