CVE-2025-62291 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2025-62291

In the eap-mschapv2 plugin (client-side) in strongSwan before 6.0.3, a...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

strongSwan
Vulnerable Versions:
4.2.12

Timeline

Official Publish: January 16th, 2026
Last Modified: January 16th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-191

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access
T1574 Hijack Execution Flow
Privilege Escalation
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
Execution
T1485 Data Destruction
Impact
T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service
Impact