CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-31893

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2026-05-05 Modified 2026-07-25 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-05-05
Last modified
2026-07-25
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-61

Description

Tunnelblick is an open source graphic user interface for OpenVPN on macOS. In versions 3.3beta26 through 9.0beta01, any local user can read arbitrary root-owned files by exploiting a symlink following vulnerability in tunnelblick-helper, reachable through the world-accessible tunnelblickd Unix socket. The socket is configured with mode 0666, allowing any local user to connect. No authorization check is performed on the connecting client. The tunnelblick-helper process constructs a path to config.ovpn inside a user-controlled .tblk directory and reads it as root without symlink validation. An attacker can create a .tblk configuration with a symlinked config.ovpn pointing to any file and request tunnelblickd to read it. This issue has been fixed in versions 9.0beta02.

Affected configurations

• tunnelblick tunnelblick (>= 3.5.3 < 8.0.1) • tunnelblick tunnelblick 3.3 • tunnelblick tunnelblick 8.1 • tunnelblick tunnelblick 9.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-61 UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following weakness

References