CVE-2018-5388: strongSwan strongSwan

strongSwan: In stroke_socket.c in strongSwan before 5.6.3…

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.039 · 90th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: certcc) at 31 May 2018, 00:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
strongSwan	strongSwan	affected 5.6.3 to before 5.6.3 custom

Identifiers

CVE-2018-5388

CNA

certcc

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-124

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.039, the 90th percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 31 May 2018. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/338343 third-party-advisory
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-16 vendor-advisory
git.strongswan.org/?p=strongswan.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=0acd1ab4
www.securityfocus.com/bid/104263 vdb-entry
usn.ubuntu.com/3771-1/ vendor-advisory
www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4229 vendor-advisory
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00077.html vendor-advisory
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00001.html vendor-advisory
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00047.html vendor-advisory
packetstormsecurity.com/files/172833/strongSwan-VPN-Charon-Server-Buffer-Overflow.html

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.