cve-2024-4877
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-04-03 15:11
Modified
2025-04-04 13:25
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
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
| ▼ | URL | Tags | |
|---|---|---|---|
| security@openvpn.net | https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2024-4877 | Permissions Required | |
| security@openvpn.net | https://www.mail-archive.com/openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg07634.html | Release Notes, Mailing List |
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