CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
80.5%
Severity: Medium
Date : 2017-09-28
CVE-ID : CVE-2017-12166
Package : openvpn
Type : arbitrary code execution
Remote : Yes
Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-420
The package openvpn before version 2.4.4-1 is vulnerable to arbitrary
code execution.
Upgrade to 2.4.4-1.
The problem has been fixed upstream in version 2.4.4.
Ensure ‘key-method 2’ is used (default value).
The bounds check in the read_key() function in OpenVPN before 2.4.4 and
2.3.18 was performed after using the value, instead of before. If
‘key-method 1’ is used, this allowed an attacker to send a malformed
packet to trigger a stack buffer overflow.
Note that ‘key-method 1’ has been replaced by ‘key method 2’ as the
default in OpenVPN 2.0 (released on 2005-04-17), and explicitly
deprecated in 2.4 and marked for removal in 2.5. This should limit the
amount of users impacted by this issue.
A remote attacker is able to execute arbitrary code on the affected
host when an old key-method is configured.
https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2017-12166
https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/commit/3b1a61e9fb27213c46f76312f4065816bee8ed01
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2017-12166
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
80.5%