Description

In the eap-mschapv2 plugin (client-side) in strongSwan before 6.0.3, a malicious EAP-MSCHAPv2 server can send a crafted message of size 6 through 8, and cause an integer underflow that potentially results in a heap-based buffer overflow.

INFO

Published Date :

2026-01-16T00:00:00.000Z

Last Modified :

2026-01-16T19:07:43.455Z

Source :

mitre
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-62291 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Strongswan
  • Strongswan
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2025-62291.

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https://github.com/strongswan/strongswan/commits/master/src/libcharon/plugins/eap_mschapv2 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/strongswan/strongswan/releases cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/11/msg00002.html cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-62291 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-62291 cve-icon
https://www.strongswan.org/blog/2025/10/27/strongswan-vulnerability-%28cve-2025-62291%29.html cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
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