CVE-2024-27903 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

OpenVPN plug-ins on Windows with OpenVPN 2.6.9 and earlier could be loaded from any directory, which allows an attacker to load an arbitrary plug-in which can be used to interact with the privileged OpenVPN interactive service.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

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 0.06993.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Openvpn Subscribe	Openvpn Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

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

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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-2024-27903
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': 0.06993}`	epss `{'score': 0.07171}`

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

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPEs	cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn2::::::::
Vendors & Products	Openvpn openvpn2
Metrics	ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}` cvssV3_1 `{'score': 7.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}`	cvssV3_1 `{'score': 9.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}`

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: OpenVPN

Published: 2024-07-08T10:27:40.125Z

Updated: 2024-08-23T03:55:35.767Z

Reserved: 2024-03-12T18:26:01.705Z

Link: CVE-2024-27903

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T00:41:55.566Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-07-08T11:15:10.390

Modified: 2024-11-21T09:05:23.177

Link: CVE-2024-27903

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

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