CVE-2008-3459

published 2008-08-04

CVE-2008-3459: 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…

Priority P3 42 high 7.6 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC H Au N C C I C A C

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.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	openvpn	< openvpn 2.1~rc9-1 (bookworm)	openvpn 2.1~rc9-1 (bookworm)
openvpn	openvpn	—	—
openvpn	openvpn	>= 0 < 2.1~rc9-1	2.1~rc9-1
openvpn	openvpn	>= 0 < 2.1~rc9-1	2.1~rc9-1
openvpn	openvpn	>= 0 < 2.1~rc9-1	2.1~rc9-1
openvpn	openvpn	>= 0 < 2.1~rc9-1	2.1~rc9-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 7.6 HIGH AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

osv 7.6 HIGH

vendor_debian 7.6 LOW

vendor_redhat 7.6 HIGH

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