CVE-2017-7478

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

OpenVPN version 2.3.12 and newer is vulnerable to unauthenticated Denial of Service of server via received large control packet. Note that this issue is fixed in 2.3.15 and 2.4.2.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-617 CWE-20

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
OpenVPN Technologies, Inc	openvpn	2.3.12 and newer

References

Timeline

Published: May 15, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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