CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-7522

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2017-06-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-06-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20, CWE-476

Description

OpenVPN versions before 2.4.3 and before 2.3.17 are vulnerable to denial-of-service by authenticated remote attacker via sending a certificate with an embedded NULL character.

Affected configurations

• openvpn openvpn (<= 2.3.16) • openvpn openvpn 2.4.0 • openvpn openvpn 2.4.1 • openvpn openvpn 2.4.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References