OpenVPN 2.6.9 Interactive Service Stack Overflow Privilege Escalation
CVE-2024-27459 Published on July 8, 2024
The interactive service in OpenVPN 2.6.9 and earlier allows an attacker to send data causing a stack overflow which can be used to execute arbitrary code with more privileges.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2024-27459 can be exploited with network access, and requires user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
What is a Stack Overflow Vulnerability?
A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function).
CVE-2024-27459 has been classified to as a Stack Overflow vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2024-27459
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Affected Versions
OpenVPN GUI:- Version 2.6.9 and earlier is affected.
- Before and including 2.6.9 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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