GHSA-m5x7-29rp-3xmr
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Network-reachable DoS via assertion requires low-privilege auth and high-complexity timing; no confidentiality or integrity impact applies.
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Primary rating from Vendor (CNA).
CVSS VectorVendor
Lifecycle Timeline
4Description PRE-NVD
AnalysisAI
Denial-of-service in OpenVPN via a reachable assertion (CWE-617) allows a remote, low-privileged attacker to crash the OpenVPN daemon under high-complexity, timing-specific conditions. All OpenVPN deployments running versions prior to v2.7.5 are affected; the fix is available in the v2.7.5 release disclosed pre-NVD via GitHub. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis; the CVSS 4.0 score of 5.9 (Medium) reflects the constrained exploitation path, though VPN service disruption carries meaningful operational impact for affected operators.
Technical ContextAI
CWE-617 (Reachable Assertion) identifies code paths where a runtime assert() or equivalent guard statement can be triggered by attacker-controlled input, causing the process to abort unconditionally. In OpenVPN, the vulnerability is reachable via the network-facing control channel under specific timing and packet-sequence conditions, as reflected by the CVSS 4.0 vector metrics AV:N/AC:H/AT:P. The AT:P (Attack Requirements: Present) metric confirms that specific preconditions beyond a default network connection are required. No CPE strings were included in the provided intelligence; the canonical product is openvpn:openvpn as tracked by NVD. The v2.7.5 release also addresses two distinct CVEs in the same package: CVE-2026-13379 (DNS SearchList state pollution in openvpnserv on Windows via --dns config interactions) and CVE-2026-12996 (use-after-free in ack_write_buf() triggered by a well-timed control channel and authentication packet sequence). CVE-2026-13122 is distinct from both of those; its precise code location is not confirmed due to truncation of the CVE description.
RemediationAI
Upgrade to OpenVPN v2.7.5 or later, which contains the confirmed fix as published at https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/releases/tag/v2.7.5 and referenced in the vendor security announcement at https://community.openvpn.net/Security%20Announcements/CVE-2026-13122. The v2.7.5 release simultaneously patches CVE-2026-13379 and CVE-2026-12996, making the upgrade a high-priority single action for any OpenVPN deployment. If immediate upgrade is not operationally feasible, restrict access to the OpenVPN control-channel port (typically UDP/1194 or TCP/443) via perimeter firewall rules to allow only known, authorized client IP ranges - this does not eliminate the vulnerability but substantially raises the exploitation bar by reducing the attacker population who can reach the service. Monitor for unexpected OpenVPN daemon restarts or crashes as an indicator of exploitation attempts while patching is in progress.
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openvpnserv.exe (aka the interactive service helper) in OpenVPN 2.4.x before 2.4.6 allows a local attacker to cause a do
CRLF injection vulnerability in the web interface in OpenVPN Access Server 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbit
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the XML-RPC API in the Desktop Client in OpenVPN Access Se
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tap-windows6 driver version 9.26 and earlier does not properly check the size data of incomming write operations which a
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Same weakness CWE-617 – Reachable Assertion
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SUSE
Severity: Important| Product | Status |
|---|---|
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP7 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.1 | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 16.0 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP4 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP5 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP6 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS Extended Security | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6-LTSS | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy LTS 4.3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server LTS 4.3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Server LTS 4.3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 7 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP5 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-ESPOS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-ESPOS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-ESPOS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-ESPOS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP6 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 12 SP2-CLIENT | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP4 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-ESPOS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-ESPOS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-BCL | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-BCL | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-BCL | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.0 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 | Not-Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.3 | Not-Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.4 | Not-Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.5 | Not-Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.6 | Affected |
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EUVD-2026-41880