Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-3393

RCE

Title: Openvpn Openvpn RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-3393.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Nov 01, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.48%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-3393: Format string vulnerability in the foreign_option function in options.c for OpenVPN 2.0.x allows remote clients to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a push of the dhcp-option command option.

Impacted Vendors

openvpn 2

aviatrix 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113081023121059&w=2 http://openvpn.net/changelog.html http://secunia.com/advisories/17376 http://secunia.com/advisories/17447 http://secunia.com/advisories/17452 http://secunia.com/advisories/17480 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-885 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-07.xml http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_25_sr.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/415487 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15239 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2255 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113081023121059&w=2 http://openvpn.net/changelog.html http://secunia.com/advisories/17376 http://secunia.com/advisories/17447 http://secunia.com/advisories/17452 http://secunia.com/advisories/17480 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-885 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-07.xml http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_25_sr.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/415487 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15239 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2255

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-3393 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 01, 2005 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.