Low severity · published Apr 27, 2020
CVE-2020-11810
An issue was discovered in OpenVPN 2.4.x before 2.4.9
3.7
CVSS
1.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in OpenVPN 2.4.x before 2.4.9. An attacker can inject a data channel v2 (P_DATA_V2) packet using a victim's peer-id. Normally such packets are dropped, but if this packet arrives before the data channel crypto parameters have been initialized, the victim's connection will be dropped. This requires careful timing due to the small time window (usually within a few seconds) between the victim client connection starting and the server PUSH_REPLY response back to the client. This attack will only work if Negotiable Cipher Parameters (NCP) is in use.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.6% · higher than 76% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0; 10.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
30; 32 · source: NVD
OP
Openvpn · Openvpn
2.4.0 before 2.4.9 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11810
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-11810
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1169925
Exploit
https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/ticket/1272
Patch
https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/commit/37bc691e7d26ea4eb61a8a434ebd7a9ae76225ab
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00002.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FGHHV4YZANZW45KZTJJGVGPFMSXYRCKZ/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JII7RYYYRBPQNEGGVSOXCM7JUZ43T3VH/
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