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CVE-2008-3459

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-16 Configuration Errors
Publication date:
04/08/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in OpenVPN 2.1-beta14 through 2.1-rc8, when running on non-Windows systems, allows remote servers to execute arbitrary commands via crafted (1) lladdr and (2) iproute configuration directives, probably related to shell metacharacters.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.60 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
7.60
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn:2.1:beta-14:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn:2.1:beta-15:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn:2.1:beta-16:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn:2.1:rc_1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn:2.1:rc_2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn:2.1:rc_3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn:2.1:rc_4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn:2.1:rc_5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn:2.1:rc_6:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn:2.1:rc_7:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn:2.1:rc_8:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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