CVE-2017-12166

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-12166
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12166.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-12166
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-10-04T01:29:02.090Z
Modified
2026-03-10T14:19:10.464971Z
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
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
9779cef26e296bb7c94e336c0a1ea1f4da3276d9
Introduced
307abe7b32e951ece58c7964b3fa72536aee6724
Fixed
1f458322cdaffed02184df8c638bde69256a840a
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2.3.18"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "2.4.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2.4.4"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v2.*
v2.4.0
v2.4.1
v2.4.2
v2.4.3

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12166.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "9.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]