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CVE-2024-28820 Details

UNDERGOING ENRICHMENT

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Description

Buffer overflow in the extract_openvpn_cr function in openvpn-cr.c in openvpn-auth-ldap (aka the Three Rings Auth-LDAP plugin for OpenVPN) 2.0.4 allows attackers with a valid LDAP username and who can control the challenge/response password field to pass a string with more than 14 colons into this field and cause a buffer overflow.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NDDVolerionCVSS-B:…Vector:This vulnerability is currently being analyzed.
CNA: CISA-ADPCVSS-B:6.3 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://github.com/threerings/openvpn-auth-ldap/pull/92 CVE
https://github.com/threerings/openvpn-auth-ldap/tags CVE
https://github.com/threerings/openvpn-auth-ldap/pull/92 [email protected]
https://github.com/threerings/openvpn-auth-ldap/tags [email protected]

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-125Out-of-bounds ReadCISA-ADP

Affected Products

This vulnerability is currently being analyzed

Change History

7 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2024-28820
NVD Published Date:
Jun 27, 2024
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2024-28820 Details - Not Deferred