CVE-2026-63649 (GCVE-0-2026-63649)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-14 22:13
Modified
2026-08-17 15:38
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-183 - Permissive list of allowed inputs
Summary
The Windows interactive service in OpenVPN 2.4.0 through 2.6.21 and 2.7_alpha1 through 2.7.5 allows local authenticated users to bypass the trusted configuration directory constraint and load arbitrary configuration files via crafted options that bypass whitelist checks
References
Impacted products
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