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External Control of System or Configuration Setting

CVE-2021-27406

High
8.8/10

Summary

An attacker can take leverage on PerFact OpenVPN-Client versions 1.4.1.0 and prior to send the config command from any application running on the local host machine to force the back-end server into initializing a new open-VPN instance with arbitrary open-VPN configuration. This could result in the attacker achieving execution with privileges of a SYSTEM user.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-15 - External Control of System or Configuration Setting

One or more system settings or configuration elements can be externally controlled by a user.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published