CVE-2024-4877
8.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.22%
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
How to fix CVE-2024-4877
To remediate CVE-2024-4877, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/openvpn—upgrade to 0 or later
Is CVE-2024-4877 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |