Vulnerability · Published Jul 8, 2024 · Assigned by OpenVPN

CVE-2024-1305

Critical 9.8

In plain English

A critical-severity integer overflow in OpenVPN-GUI from OpenVPN. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 15.4% (higher than 97% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)9.8Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)15.4%top 3.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

tap-windows6 driver version 9.26 and earlier does not properly check the size data of incomming write operations which an attacker can use to overflow memory buffers, resulting in a bug check and potentially arbitrary code execution in kernel space

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
OpenVPN tap-windows6 9.26 or earlier
OpenVPN OpenVPN-GUI 2.6.9 and earlier

Weakness: CWE-190 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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