🛡️ CVE-2022-3761 — connect

🟡 CVSS 5.9 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-295 NVD
5.9
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

OpenVPN Connect versions before 3.4.0.4506 (macOS) and OpenVPN Connect before 3.4.0.3100 (Windows) allows man-in-the-middle attackers to intercept configuration profile download requests which contains the users credentials

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-3761 is classified as CWE-295: Improper Certificate Validation. A TLS certificate is accepted without proper verification, so a man-in-the-middle can present their own.

Affected software

CVE-2022-3761 is recorded against 1 package.

  • connect (fixed in 3.4.0.4506)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 October 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

openvpn.net
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openvpn.net
openvpn.net

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.9
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-295
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-10-17
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
connect — 3.4.0.4506

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