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CVE-2024-4877

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Date: April 3, 2025

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

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Related Resources (5)

https://www.mail-archive.com/openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg07634.html
https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2024-4877
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-4877
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-4877
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2024-4877

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Privilege Chaining

CWE-268

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

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