CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-27406

8.8 HIGH Published 2022-10-14 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-10-14
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-15, CWE-610

Description

An attacker can take leverage on PerFact OpenVPN-Client versions 1.4.1.0 and prior to send the config command from any application running on the local host machine to force the back-end server into initializing a new open-VPN instance with arbitrary open-VPN configuration. This could result in the attacker achieving execution with privileges of a SYSTEM user.

Affected configurations

• perfact openvpn-client (<= 1.4.1.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-15 External Control of System or Configuration Setting weakness
  • CWE-610 Externally Controlled Reference to a Resource in Another Sphere weakness

References