CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-11771

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.38%

30th percentile - higher than 30% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in OpenVPN versions 2.1.0 through 2.6.20 and 2.7_alpha1 through 2.7.4 allows attackers to exploit an off-by-one buffer write in NTLM proxy authentication, potentially causing a crash via a crafted NTLM response from a malicious proxy server.

Risk Assessment

An attacker controlling a proxy server could crash the OpenVPN client, potentially disrupting VPN connectivity and exposing data confidentiality.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update OpenVPN to version 2.6.21 or later (or 2.7.5) which contains the fix.

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Original NVD description (English source)

OpenVPN version 2.1.0 through 2.6.20 and 2.7_alpha1 through 2.7.4 allows attackers via an off-by-one buffer write in the NTLM proxy authentication to potentially cause a crash via a crafted NTLM response from a malicious proxy server

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS