CVE-2024-27903

CRITICAL
INFO Priority: 0.87 BB Relevance: 81/100
Published: 2024-07-08 Modified: 2026-11-03 First seen: 2026-11-03 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network Low Complexity No Auth No Interaction Conf. Impact Integ. Impact

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: High
I: High
A: High

Description

OpenVPN plug-ins on Windows with OpenVPN 2.6.9 and earlier could be loaded from any directory, which allows an attacker to load an arbitrary plug-in which can be used to interact with the privileged OpenVPN interactive service.

Affected Software (3)

VendorProductVersion
OpenVPN OpenVPN 2 2.6.9 and earlier
OpenVPN OpenVPN 2 2.6.9 and earlier
openvpn openvpn < 2.5.10

Bug Bounty Relevance

81 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

9.8 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

8.92%
Raw Score 0.089220
Percentile 95.3%
Date 2026-11-14

EPSS Trend

2026-11-14
0.08922
2026-11-13
0.08922
2026-11-12
0.08922
2026-11-10
0.08922
2026-11-09
0.08922
2026-11-08
0.08922
2026-11-07
0.08922
2026-11-06
0.08922
2026-11-05
0.08922
2026-11-04
0.08922
2026-11-03
0.08922

Intelligence Sources

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