CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-5868
6.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-05-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-93
Description
CRLF injection vulnerability in the web interface in OpenVPN Access Server 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and consequently conduct session fixation attacks and possibly HTTP response splitting attacks via "%0A" characters in the PATH_INFO to __session_start__/.
Affected configurations
• openvpn openvpn access server 2.1.4
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-93 Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/23/13 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038547 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://sysdream.com/news/lab/2017-05-05-cve-2017-5868-openvpn-access-server-crlf-injection-with-session-fixation/ Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/23/13 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038547 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://sysdream.com/news/lab/2017-05-05-cve-2017-5868-openvpn-access-server-crlf-injection-with-session-fixation/ Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory