Vulnerability · Published Jul 30, 2026 · Assigned by OpenVPN

CVE-2026-12932

High 7.1

In plain English

A high-severity memory leak in OpenVPN from OpenVPN. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 36% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 4.0)7.1High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 63.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A memory leak in the tls-crypt-v2 client key extraction in OpenVPN 2.5.0 through 2.6.20 and 2.7_alpha1 through 2.7.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a flood of crafted packets

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.24openvpn2.7.5-r0ALPINE-CVE-2026-12932
Debian:12openvpn2.6.14-0+deb12u2DEBIAN-CVE-2026-12932
Debian:13openvpn2.6.14-1+deb13u3DEBIAN-CVE-2026-12932
Debian:14openvpn2.7.5-1DEBIAN-CVE-2026-12932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSopenvpn2.5.11-0ubuntu0.22.04.4UBUNTU-CVE-2026-12932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSopenvpn2.6.19-0ubuntu0.24.04.3UBUNTU-CVE-2026-12932
Ubuntu:25.10openvpnno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-12932
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSopenvpn2.7.0-1ubuntu1.2UBUNTU-CVE-2026-12932

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
OpenVPN OpenVPN 2.5.0 – through 2.6.202.7_alpha1 – through 2.7.4

Weakness: CWE-401 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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