CVE-2024-28820
6.3
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.22%
Description
Buffer overflow in the extract_openvpn_cr function in openvpn-cr.c in openvpn-auth-ldap (aka the Three Rings Auth-LDAP plugin for OpenVPN) 2.0.4 allows attackers with a valid LDAP username and who can control the challenge/response password field to pass a string with more than 14 colons into this field and cause a buffer overflow.
How to fix CVE-2024-28820
To remediate CVE-2024-28820, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 2.0.4-r7 or later
- —no fix listed
Is CVE-2024-28820 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 2.0.4-r7
- from 0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |