Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-7521

Title: Openvpn Denial of Service (DoS)

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-7521.

CWE Category CWE-415

Published Date Jun 27, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.9 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.86%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-7521: OpenVPN versions before 2.4.3 and before 2.3.17 are vulnerable to remote denial-of-service due to memory exhaustion caused by memory leaks and double-free issue in extract_x509_extension().

Impacted Vendors

openvpn 1

aviatrix 1

Reference Links

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3900 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99230 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038768 https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/VulnerabilitiesFixedInOpenVPN243 http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3900 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99230 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038768 https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/VulnerabilitiesFixedInOpenVPN243

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.9

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

HIGH

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns