FKIE_CVE-2023-7235

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-02-21 11:15 - Updated: 2025-05-06 18:02
Severity ?
8.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
The OpenVPN GUI installer before version 2.6.9 did not set the proper access control restrictions to the installation directory of OpenVPN binaries when using a non-standard installation path, which allows an attacker to replace binaries to run arbitrary executables.
References
security@openvpn.nethttps://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2023-7235Permissions Required
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2023-7235Permissions Required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
openvpn openvpn_gui *
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  "lastModified": "2025-05-06T18:02:59.910",
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