CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-7544

9.1 CRITICAL Published 2018-03-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-03-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.1 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-134

Description

A cross-protocol scripting issue was discovered in the management interface in OpenVPN through 2.4.5. When this interface is enabled over TCP without a password, and when no other clients are connected to this interface, attackers can execute arbitrary management commands, obtain sensitive information, or cause a denial of service (SIGTERM) by triggering XMLHttpRequest actions in a web browser. This is demonstrated by a multipart/form-data POST to http://localhost:23000 with a "signal SIGTERM" command in a TEXTAREA element. NOTE: The vendor disputes that this is a vulnerability. They state that this is the result of improper configuration of the OpenVPN instance rather than an intrinsic vulnerability, and now more explicitly warn against such configurations in both the management-interface documentation, and with a runtime warning

Affected configurations

• openvpn openvpn (<= 2.4.5)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-134 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String weakness

References