CVE-2017-12166
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12166
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12166.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-12166
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2017-10-04T01:29:02.090Z
- Modified
- 2025-11-14T05:00:02.705323Z
- Severity
-
- 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
OpenVPN versions before 2.3.3 and 2.4.x before 2.4.4 are vulnerable to a buffer overflow vulnerability when key-method 1 is used, possibly resulting in code execution.
- References
Affected packages
Git / github.com/openvpn/openvpn
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/openvpn/openvpn
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixed
Affected versions
Other
contains
v2.*
v2.1.0
v2.1.1
v2.1.2
v2.1.3
v2.1_rc1
v2.1_rc10
v2.1_rc11
v2.1_rc12
v2.1_rc13
v2.1_rc14
v2.1_rc15
v2.1_rc16
v2.1_rc17
v2.1_rc18
v2.1_rc19
v2.1_rc2
v2.1_rc20
v2.1_rc21
v2.1_rc22
v2.1_rc3
v2.1_rc4
v2.1_rc5
v2.1_rc6
v2.1_rc7
v2.1_rc8
v2.1_rc9
v2.2-RC
v2.2-RC2
v2.2-beta4
v2.2-beta5
v2.3-alpha1
v2.3.0
v2.3.1
v2.3.10
v2.3.11
v2.3.12
v2.3.13
v2.3.14
v2.3.15
v2.3.16
v2.3.17
v2.3.2
v2.3.3
v2.3.4
v2.3.5
v2.3.6
v2.3.7
v2.3.8
v2.3.9
v2.3_alpha2
v2.3_alpha3
v2.3_beta1
v2.3_rc1
v2.3_rc2