CVE-2026-78135

MEDIUM NVD

CVSS Score 5.6

Severity MEDIUM

Published Sep 11, 2026

Vendor unknown

Description

libcharon in strongSwan 5.9.7 through 6.0.7 mishandles behavioral workflow in the IKEv2 state machine. Because CREATE_CHILD_SA requests are mishandled, there can be an authentication bypass.

References

https://github.com/strongswan/strongswan/releases/tag/6.1.0
https://www.strongswan.org/blog/2026/09/07/strongswan-vulnerability-(cve-2026-78135).html