CVE-2017-5868

MediumCVSS 6.1/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in the web interface in OpenVPN Access Server 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and consequently conduct session fixation attacks and possibly HTTP response splitting attacks via "%0A" characters in the PATH_INFO to __session_start__/.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 6.1/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-93

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/23/13Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038547Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://sysdream.com/news/lab/2017-05-05-cve-2017-5868-openvpn-access-server-crlf-injection-with-session-fixation/Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/23/13Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038547Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://sysdream.com/news/lab/2017-05-05-cve-2017-5868-openvpn-access-server-crlf-injection-with-session-fixation/Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: May 26, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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