CVE-2024-27459 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.05418.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

OpenVPN

OpenVPN GUI

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`2.6.9 and earlier`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn:::::community:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn:::::community:::*

No data.

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Project Subscriptions

Vendors	Products
Openvpn Subscribe	Openvpn Subscribe

Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2024-27459
https://openvpn.net/security-advisory/ovpnx-vulnerability-cve-2024-27903-cve-2024-27459-cve-2024-24974/
https://www.mail-archive.com/openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg07534.html

History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.05418}`	epss `{'score': 0.05558}`

Sat, 10 Aug 2024 04:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPEs	cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn_gui::::::::
Vendors & Products	Openvpn openvpn Gui
Metrics	ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: OpenVPN

Published: 2024-07-08T10:14:06.208Z

Updated: 2024-08-23T15:05:42.997Z

Reserved: 2024-03-12T18:26:01.720Z

Link: CVE-2024-27459

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T00:34:52.326Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-07-08T11:15:10.303

Modified: 2024-11-21T09:04:39.057

Link: CVE-2024-27459

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

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