cve-2024-5594
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-01-06 13:52
Modified
2025-04-08 20:40
Severity ?
9.1 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Summary
OpenVPN before 2.6.11 does not santize PUSH_REPLY messages properly which an attacker controlling the server can use to inject unexpected arbitrary data ending up in client logs.
References
security@openvpn.nethttps://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2024-5594
security@openvpn.nethttps://www.mail-archive.com/openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg07634.html
Impacted products
OpenVPNOpenVPN
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