cve-2024-4877
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-04-03 15:11
Modified
2025-04-04 13:25
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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
References
security@openvpn.nethttps://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2024-4877
security@openvpn.nethttps://www.mail-archive.com/openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg07634.html
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
OpenVPN OpenVPN Version: 2.4.0   ≤ 2.6.11
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