CVE-2024-4877

Publication date 3 April 2025

Last updated 9 April 2025


Ubuntu priority

OpenVPN version 2.4.0 through 2.6.10 on Windows allows an external, lesser privileged process to create a named pipe which the OpenVPN GUI component would connect to allowing it to escalate its privileges

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
openvpn 24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes


alexmurray

Is specific to openvpn on Windows so Ubuntu is not affected