EXTERNAL CONTROL OF SYSTEM OR CONFIGURATION SETTING CWE-15
An attacker can take leverage on this architecture and send the config command from any application running on the local host machine to force the back-end server into initializing a new open-VPN instance with arbitrary open-VPN configuration. This could result in the attacker achieving execution with privileges of a SYSTEM user.
Read more: "All Roads Lead to OpenVPN: Pwning Industrial Remote Access Clients"
CVE-2021-27406
PerFact
OpenVPN Client
8.8
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