CVE-2024-24974 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The interactive service in OpenVPN 2.6.9 and earlier allows the OpenVPN service pipe to be accessed remotely, which allows a remote attacker to interact with the privileged OpenVPN interactive service.

Published: 2024-07-08

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: 11.1% Moderate

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

OpenVPN

OpenVPN 2

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`2.6.9 and earlier`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn:::::community:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn:::::community:::*

No data.

No data available yet.

Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

No advisories yet.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.11092.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2024-24974
https://openvpn.net/security-advisory/ovpnx-vulnerability-cve-2024-27903-cve-2024-27459-cve-2024-24974/
https://www.mail-archive.com/openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg07534.html

History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.09711}`	epss `{'score': 0.09949}`

Subscriptions

Openvpn Openvpn

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: OpenVPN

Published: 2024-07-08T10:20:34.520Z

Updated: 2024-08-10T03:55:21.896Z

Reserved: 2024-03-12T18:26:01.713Z

Link: CVE-2024-24974

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T23:36:21.292Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-07-08T11:15:10.103

Modified: 2024-11-21T09:00:04.127

Link: CVE-2024-24974

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

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