OpenVPN Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Apr 2025) - Windows
🗓️ 07 Apr 2025 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2025 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 22 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2024-4877 | 3 Apr 202515:11 | – | alpinelinux | |
| The vulnerability of the Interactive Service (iservice) of the OpenVPN GUI software allows a malicious individual to gain unauthorized access to the user’s account. | 7 Apr 202500:00 | – | bdu_fstec | |
| CVE-2024-4877 | 13 Mar 202511:00 | – | circl | |
| CVE-2024-4877 | 3 Apr 202515:11 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2024-4877 | 3 Apr 202515:11 | – | cvelist | |
| CVE-2024-4877 | 3 Apr 202515:11 | – | debiancve | |
| EUVD-2025-9647 | 3 Oct 202520:07 | – | euvd | |
| Vulnerabilities fixed in Siemens products | 11 Mar 202512:30 | – | ncsc | |
| CVE-2024-4877 | 3 Apr 202516:15 | – | nvd | |
| ALPINE-CVE-2024-4877 | 3 Apr 202516:15 | – | osv |
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| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| community | www.community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2024-4877 |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:openvpn:openvpn";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.836100");
script_version("2025-04-11T15:45:04+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-2024-4877");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.5");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-04-11 15:45:04 +0000 (Fri, 11 Apr 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2025-04-07 15:42:06 +0530 (Mon, 07 Apr 2025)");
script_name("OpenVPN Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Apr 2025) - Windows");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"OpenVPN is prone to a privilege escalation
vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present
on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw exists due to a lack of pipe
ownership validation in OpenVPN-GUI.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation allows an attacker
to impersonate the GUI user and gain access to their security context.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"OpenVPN version 2.4.0 through 2.6.10.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 2.6.11 or later.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2024-4877");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2025 Greenbone AG");
script_family("General");
script_dependencies("gb_openvpn_win_detect.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("OpenVPN/Win/Ver");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if (!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, exit_no_version: TRUE))
exit(0);
vers = infos["version"];
path = infos["location"];
if (version_in_range(version: vers, test_version: "2.4.0", test_version2: "2.6.10")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: vers, fixed_version: "2.6.11", install_path: path);
security_message(port: 0, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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11 Apr 2025 00:00Current
8.8High risk
Vulners AI Score8.8
CVSS 3.18.8
EPSS0.00423
SSVC