CVE-2026-78123

State: Published
Severity: 5.9 Medium
Published: Sep 11, 2026
Updated: Sep 15, 2026
Reserved: Aug 22, 2026

Description

strongSwan 5.0.2 through 6.0.7 has an Expired Pointer Dereference in PKCS#7 parsing in the openssl plugin.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.9 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	mitre

Weaknesses

CWE-825 Expired Pointer Dereference

Affected Products

Product	Versions
strongSwanstrongSwan	5.0.2 to before 6.1.0Affected

References

https://github.com/strongswan/strongswan/releases/tag/6.1.0
https://www.strongswan.org/blog/2026/09/07/strongswan-vulnerability-(cve-2026-78123).html

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