CVE-2022-0547 (GCVE-0-2022-0547)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-03-18 18:00
Modified
2025-11-03 20:34
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-305 - - Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness
Summary
OpenVPN 2.1 until v2.4.12 and v2.5.6 may enable authentication bypass in external authentication plug-ins when more than one of them makes use of deferred authentication replies, which allows an external user to be granted access with only partially correct credentials.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a OpenVPN Version: version 2.1 until version 2.4.12 and 2.5.6.
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