CVE-2025-13086 (GCVE-0-2025-13086)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-03 19:54 – Updated: 2025-12-12 13:50
VLAI?
Summary
Improper validation of source IP addresses in OpenVPN version 2.6.0 through 2.6.15 and 2.7_alpha1 through 2.7_rc1 allows an attacker to open a session from a different IP address which did not initiate the connection resulting in a denial of service for the originating client
Severity ?
4.6 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
CWE
  • CWE-940 - Improper Verification of Source of a Communication Channel
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
OpenVPN OpenVPN Affected: 2.6.0 , ≤ 2.6.15 (semver)
Affected: 2.7_alpha1 , ≤ 2.7_rc1 (semver)
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