Vulnerabilities > CVE-2005-2359 - Authentication Constant Key Usage vulnerability in BSD IPsec Session AES-XCBC-MAC

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
freebsd

Summary

The AES-XCBC-MAC algorithm in IPsec in FreeBSD 5.3 and 5.4, when used for authentication without other encryption, uses a constant key instead of the one that was assigned by the system administrator, which can allow remote attackers to spoof packets to establish an IPsec session.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Freebsd
2