Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-2229

Title: Openvpn Openvpn Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-2229.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 05, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.35%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-2229: OpenVPN 2.0.7 and earlier, when configured to use the --management option with an IP that is not 127.0.0.1, uses a cleartext password for TCP sessions to the management interface, which might allow remote attackers to view sensitive information or cause a denial of service.

Impacted Vendors

openvpn 2

aviatrix 1

Reference Links

http://openvpn.net/man.html http://www.osvdb.org/25660 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/432863/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/432867/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/433000/100/0/threaded http://openvpn.net/man.html http://www.osvdb.org/25660 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/432863/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/432867/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/433000/100/0/threaded

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-2229 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.

May 05, 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:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.