CVE-2018-9336

7.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Openvpn
Status
Openvpn
Vendor
CVE Published:
1 May 2018

Summary

openvpnserv.exe (aka the interactive service helper) in OpenVPN 2.4.x before 2.4.6 allows a local attacker to cause a double-free of memory by sending a malformed request to the interactive service. This could cause a denial-of-service through memory corruption or possibly have unspecified other impact including privilege escalation.

References

https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/releases/tag/v2.4.6
x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-...
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWARE
https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2018-09
x_refsource_MISC

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

.