CVE-2008-3459
Published Aug 4, 2008
Last updated 7 years ago
Overview
- Description
- Unspecified vulnerability in OpenVPN 2.1-beta14 through 2.1-rc8, when running on non-Windows systems, allows remote servers to execute arbitrary commands via crafted (1) lladdr and (2) iproute configuration directives, probably related to shell metacharacters.
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.6
- Impact score
- 10
- Exploitability score
- 4.9
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-16
Evaluator
- Comment
- -
- Impact
- The following events must take place for successful exploitation: 1) the client has agreed to allow the server to push configuration directives to it by including "pull" or the macro "client" in its configuration file 2) the client succesfully authenticates the server 3) the server is malicious or has been compromised and is under the control of the attacker 4) the client is running a non-Windows OS.
- Solution
- The following events must take place for successful exploitation: 1) the client has agreed to allow the server to push configuration directives to it by including "pull" or the macro "client" in its configuration file 2) the client succesfully authenticates the server 3) the server is malicious or has been compromised and is under the control of the attacker 4) the client is running a non-Windows OS.
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn:2.1:beta-14:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "C6826F2C-9769-4F70-8121-988986C9DAFA"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn:2.1:beta-15:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "38CDC26A-2EA1-4FD1-BE82-09ABE335A778"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn:2.1:beta-16:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "F4284CC6-B78D-478D-B815-3FB4D884A726"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn:2.1:rc_1:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "F972B6E6-0553-454E-BF58-107E7A9EC9E1"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn:2.1:rc_2:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "9DBF4843-5E4F-4C47-BBF8-4ADB45C422E7"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn:2.1:rc_3:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "61BB61B4-2769-4F59-875F-9269C551E386"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn:2.1:rc_4:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "DBD947CF-98BC-4C84-8149-B4EEFF1015AF"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn:2.1:rc_5:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "FE621907-2D6B-4558-A9B9-E98AAF236D59"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn:2.1:rc_6:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "B57458F3-B8F9-454E-98B1-9FA33ABDF0BE"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn:2.1:rc_7:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "42F0E1FF-0863-418C-BD26-F3B18B257370"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn:2.1:rc_8:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "B0E905D4-34F6-4ACD-8D86-0C9E29EDB282"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]