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CVE-2024-27903

OpenVPN plug-ins on Windows with OpenVPN 2.6.9 and earlier could be loaded from any directory, which allows an attacker to load an arbitrary plug-in which can be used to interact with the privileged OpenVPN interactive service.

Score
9.8 critical
Published
2024-07-08
Links
NVD · cve.org

Affected ports (1)

PortPackageVersionStatusMaintainer
security/openvpn-developenvpn-develg20260907,2unaddressedgert@greenie.muc.de

Template for a VuXML entry

Range taken from the CVE record, check it before committing. make newentry in security/vuxml creates the vid.

  <vuln vid="FIXME (make newentry)">
    <topic>FIXME -- FIXME</topic>
    <affects>
      <package>
	<name>openvpn-devel</name>
	<range><lt>2.5.10</lt></range>
      </package>
    </affects>
    <description>
      <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	<p>OpenVPN plug-ins on Windows with OpenVPN 2.6.9 and earlier could be
	loaded from any directory, which allows an attacker to load an
	arbitrary plug-in which can be used to interact with the privileged
	OpenVPN interactive service.</p>
      </body>
    </description>
    <references>
      <cvename>CVE-2024-27903</cvename>
      <url>https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-27903</url>
    </references>
    <dates>
      <discovery>2024-07-08</discovery>
      <entry>2026-10-25</entry>
    </dates>
  </vuln>