CVE-2026-84256
An argument parsing issue in OpenVPN 2.1_rc10 through 2.6.22 and 2.7_alpha1 through 2.7.6 on Windows allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted certificate subject
Scoring
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS base score
- 7.7
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- EPSS probability
- 0.38%
- CWE
- CWE-78, CWE-88
- Published
- 2026-09-07
- Last modified
- 2026-09-08
Affected products
- OpenVPN OpenVPN
- OpenVPN OpenVPN
Weakness type
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