CVE-2024-4877 – OpenVPN Windows Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2024-4877 vulnerability over time.

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impact the vulnerability’s severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    Apr. 03, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description OpenVPN version 2.4.0 through 2.6.10 on Windows allows an external, lesser privileged process to create a named pipe which the OpenVPN GUI component would connect to allowing it to escalate its privileges
    Added CWE CWE-268
    Added Reference https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2024-4877
    Added Reference https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg07634.html
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