🛡️ CVE-2023-7235
🟠 CVSS 8.4 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-276 NVD
8.4
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

The OpenVPN GUI installer before version 2.6.9 did not set the proper access control restrictions to the installation directory of OpenVPN binaries when using a non-standard installation path, which allows an attacker to replace binaries to run arbitrary executables.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.4
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-276
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-02-21
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-05-06
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
openvpn-gui 2.6.9

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