CVE-2026-9560 (GCVE-0-2026-9560)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-05-26 17:39
Modified
2026-05-27 03:55
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
Summary
Privilege escalation via background service of OpenVPN Connect 3.5.1 through 3.8.1 on macOS allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges via local IPC channel
References
| URL | Tags | |
|---|---|---|
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenVPN Inc | OpenVPN Connect |
Version: 3.5.1 ≤ 3.8.1 |
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