CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-13117

HighCVSS 8.1
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.40%

33th percentile - higher than 33% of all known CVEs

Summary

In OpenVPN (versions 2.6.0 through 2.6.20 and 2.7_alpha1 through 2.7.4), an incomplete guard allows remote authenticated peers to trigger a use-after-free during TLS session promotion, potentially leading to denial of service or memory leakage.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can crash the OpenVPN server or leak sensitive data from memory.

Recommendation

Upgrade OpenVPN to version 2.6.21, 2.7.5, or later.

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Original NVD description (English source)

An incomplete guard in OpenVPN 2.6.0 through 2.6.20 and 2.7_alpha1 through 2.7.4 allows remote authenticated peers to trigger a use-after-free during TLS session promotion, potentially leading to a denial of service or memory leakage

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