fkie_cve-2024-4877
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-04-03 16:15
Modified
2025-04-29 19:45
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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
References
security@openvpn.nethttps://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2024-4877Permissions Required
security@openvpn.nethttps://www.mail-archive.com/openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg07634.htmlRelease Notes, Mailing List
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
openvpn openvpn *
microsoft windows -


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    },
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  "id": "CVE-2024-4877",
  "lastModified": "2025-04-29T19:45:07.223",
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