CVE-2023-7235

highpriority · track · 0OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.002 · 12 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.21% (12th) EPSS

CVSS 8.4 · high

Is it mine?

4 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

The OpenVPN GUI installer before version 2.6.9 did not set the proper access control restrictions to the installation directory of OpenVPN binaries when using a non-standard installation path, which allows an attacker to replace binaries to run arbitrary executables.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.4

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.18.4highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.18.4highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondaryexploitability 2.5 · impact 5.9

v3.17.7highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-276USprimary

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Open Source OpenVPN 2.6.9all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:openvpn:openvpn:2.6.9
OpenVPN OpenVPN≤ 0 ≤2.6.8enisa_euvdEU
OpenVPN OpenVPNall versionsenisa_euvdEU
openvpn openvpn gui< 2.6.9nvdUScpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn_gui:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2024-0401OpenVPN: Schwachstelle ermöglicht PrivilegieneskalationDeutsch2024-02-14csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein lokaler Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in OpenVPN ausnutzen, um seine Privilegien zu erhöhen.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2024-02-21modified 2026-06-17

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references (5)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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