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CVE-2024-1305

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 15.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-07-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

tap-windows6 driver version 9.26 and earlier does not properly check the size data of incomming write operations which an attacker can use to overflow memory buffers, resulting in a bug check and potentially arbitrary code execution in kernel space

Affected products

• OpenVPN tap-windows6: through 9.26.0

References

• https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2024-1305
• https://www.mail-archive.com/openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg07534.html
• https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2024-1305
• https://www.mail-archive.com/openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg07534.html

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