CVE-2014-9104

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-11-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the XML-RPC API in the Desktop Client in OpenVPN Access Server 1.5.6 and earlier allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) disconnecting established VPN sessions, (2) connect to arbitrary VPN servers, or (3) create VPN profiles and execute arbitrary commands via crafted API requests.

Affected products

OpenVPN Access Server: through 1.5.6

References

http://openvpn.net/index.php/access-server/security-advisories.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Jul/76
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/532795/100/0/threaded
https://www.sec-consult.com/fxdata/seccons/prod/temedia/advisories_txt/20140716-1_OpenVPN_Access_Server_Desktop_Client_Remote_Code_Execution_via_CSRF_v10.txt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhgysgfvQh8
http://openvpn.net/index.php/access-server/security-advisories.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Jul/76
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/532795/100/0/threaded
https://www.sec-consult.com/fxdata/seccons/prod/temedia/advisories_txt/20140716-1_OpenVPN_Access_Server_Desktop_Client_Remote_Code_Execution_via_CSRF_v10.txt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhgysgfvQh8

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