What is CVE-2022-40617?

CVE-2022-40617 is a high-severity vulnerability in Stormshield Stormshield_network_security, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2022-10-31.

How severe is CVE-2022-40617?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Stormshield Stormshield_network_security

CVE-2022-40617

strongSwan before 5.9.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service in the revocation plugin by sending a crafted end-entity (and intermediate CA) certificate that contains a CRL/OCSP URL that points to a server (under the attacke…

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.016 (73.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Stormshield Stormshield_network_security
Strongswan
Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 14.04, 16.04, 18.04
Debian Debian_linux — versions 10.0, 11.0
Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 37
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

cve@mitre.org
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-40617?: CVE-2022-40617 is a high-severity vulnerability in Stormshield Stormshield_network_security, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2022-10-31.
How severe is CVE-2022-40617?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.