Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-1629

RCE

Title: Openvpn Openvpn RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-1629.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Apr 06, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.02%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-1629: OpenVPN 2.0 through 2.0.5 allows remote malicious servers to execute arbitrary code on the client by using setenv with the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.

Impacted Vendors

aviatrix 1

openvpn 2

Reference Links

http://openvpn.net/changelog.html http://secunia.com/advisories/19531 http://secunia.com/advisories/19598 http://secunia.com/advisories/19837 http://secunia.com/advisories/19897 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=10093825&forum_id=8482 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1045 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:069 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_28.html http://www.osreviews.net/reviews/security/openvpn-print http://www.osvdb.org/24444 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17392 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1261 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25667 http://openvpn.net/changelog.html http://secunia.com/advisories/19531 http://secunia.com/advisories/19598 http://secunia.com/advisories/19837 http://secunia.com/advisories/19897 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=10093825&forum_id=8482 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1045 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:069 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_28.html http://www.osreviews.net/reviews/security/openvpn-print http://www.osvdb.org/24444 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17392 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1261 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25667

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

9.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-1629 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.

April 06, 2006 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:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.