CVE-2024-4877

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-4877
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-4877.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-4877
Downstream
Published
2025-04-03T15:11:51.057Z
Modified
2026-05-08T04:55:55.560683Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

OpenVPN version 2.4.0 through 2.6.10 on Windows allows an external, lesser privileged process to create a named pipe which the OpenVPN GUI component would connect to allowing it to escalate its privileges

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/4xxx/CVE-2024-4877.json",
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "2.4.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "2.6.11"
                }
            ],
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD"
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "2.4.0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "2.6.10"
                }
            ],
            "source": "DESCRIPTION"
        }
    ],
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-268"
    ],
    "cna_assigner": "OpenVPN"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/openvpn/openvpn

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/openvpn/openvpn
Events
Introduced
307abe7b32e951ece58c7964b3fa72536aee6724
Fixed
ddf6bf6d2a13583535c417532e96e8a8af77f977
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.4.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2.6.11"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_FIELD"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-4877.json"