Vulnerability Report

CVE-2024-1305

Title: Openvpn Tap-Windows6 Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2024-1305.

CWE Category CWE-190

Published Date Jul 08, 2024

Modified Date Aug 22, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.8 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

15.38%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2024-1305: tap-windows6 driver version 9.26 and earlier does not properly check the size data of incomming write operations which an attacker can use to overflow memory buffers, resulting in a bug check and potentially arbitrary code execution in kernel space

Impacted Vendors

openvpn 1

Reference Links

https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2024-1305 https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg07534.html https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2024-1305 https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg07534.html

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Severity CRITICAL

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2024-1305 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

August 22, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

July 08, 2024 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.