CVE-2026-12996
Ein lokaler Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in OpenVPN ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode auszuführen, Daten zu manipulieren oder einen Denial-of-Service-Zustand zu verursachen.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- Multiple vulnerabilities allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code, manipulate data, or cause a denial-of-service condition.
- Who is affected
- Local deployments of OpenVPN are affected by these vulnerabilities.
- Urgency
- Remediation is urgent due to the high severity of the vulnerabilities, although they are not currently exploited.
- Action
- Update to the latest version of OpenVPN to mitigate these vulnerabilities.
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Exploitation outlook
- Low exploitation risk0.46% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 38% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Advisory coverage (4)
- high[UPDATE] [hoch] OpenVPN: Mehrere Schwachstellencert-bund · 2026-09-10
- highCVE-2026-12996: A use-after-free in OpenVPN 2.6.0 through 2.6.20 and 2.7_alpha1 through 2.7.4 allows remote au…nvd · 2026-07-30
- unknownUSN-8540-1: OpenVPN vulnerabilitiesubuntu · 2026-07-14
- unknownDSA-6376-1 openvpn - security updatedebian · 2026-07-03
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