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CVE-2024-27903

critical

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…

Vendor / product: Openvpn — openvpn

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.

CVSS
9.8
9.8 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2024-07-08 11:15
Modified: 2026-11-03 22:17
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 1 day ago
Verified against the source API 2026-11-03 22:24 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

openvpn / openvpn <2.5.10, ≥2.6.0 <2.6.10

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-283 CWE-434

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Vendor advisory: https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2024-27903
Vendor advisory: https://openvpn.net/security-advisory/ovpnx-vulnerability-cve-2024-27903-cve-2024-27459-cve-2024-24974/
Vendor advisory: https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2024-27903
Vendor advisory: https://openvpn.net/security-advisory/ovpnx-vulnerability-cve-2024-27903-cve-2024-27459-cve-2024-24974/

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-03 22:24 UTC · record ↗

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