CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-4877

8.8 HIGH Published 2025-04-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-04-03
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-268

Description

OpenVPN version 2.4.0 through 2.6.10 on Windows allows an external, lesser privileged process to create a named pipe which the OpenVPN GUI component would connect to allowing it to escalate its privileges

Affected configurations

• openvpn openvpn (>= 2.4.0 < 2.6.11)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-268 Privilege Chaining weakness

References