Description
The nodejs framework in OpenVPN Connect 3.0 through 3.4.3 (Windows)/3.4.7 (macOS) was not properly configured, which allows a local user to execute arbitrary code within the nodejs process context via the ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE environment variable
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Attack Vector
- local
- Complexity
- low
- Privileges
- low
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- high
- Integrity
- high
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- CWE-95NVD-CWE-noinfo
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- OPENVPN
- Published
- 2/20/2024
- Last Modified
- 4/2/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
openvpn : connectopenvpn : connectopenvpn : connectopenvpn : connectopenvpn : connectopenvpn : connectopenvpn : connectopenvpn : connectopenvpn : connectopenvpn : connectopenvpn : connectopenvpn : connect
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