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CVE-2017-5868

MEDIUM
6.1CVSS
Published: 2017-05-26
Updated: 2025-04-20
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Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in the web interface in OpenVPN Access Server 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and consequently conduct session fixation attacks and possibly HTTP response splitting attacks via "%0A" characters in the PATH_INFO to __session_start__/.

CVSS Metrics

Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
network
Complexity
low
Privileges
none
User Action
required
Scope
changed
Confidentiality
low
Integrity
low
Availability
none
Weaknesses
CWE-93

Metadata

Primary Vendor
OPENVPN
Published
5/26/2017
Last Modified
4/20/2025
Source
NIST NVD
Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.

Affected Products

openvpn : openvpn_access_server

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