CVE-2026-12996 (GCVE-0-2026-12996)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-07-30 16:38
Modified
2026-07-30 18:07
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
A use-after-free in OpenVPN 2.6.0 through 2.6.20 and 2.7_alpha1 through 2.7.4 allows remote authenticated peers to potentially cause a denial of service or leak memory via crafted packets during TLS session promotion or expiry
References
Impacted products
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