Vulnerabilities > CVE-2008-3459 - Configuration vulnerability in Openvpn 2.1
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE Integrity impact
COMPLETE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
Unspecified vulnerability in OpenVPN 2.1-beta14 through 2.1-rc8, when running on non-Windows systems, allows remote servers to execute arbitrary commands via crafted (1) lladdr and (2) iproute configuration directives, probably related to shell metacharacters. The following events must take place for successful exploitation: 1) the client has agreed to allow the server to push configuration directives to it by including "pull" or the macro "client" in its configuration file 2) the client succesfully authenticates the server 3) the server is malicious or has been compromised and is under the control of the attacker 4) the client is running a non-Windows OS.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 11 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
| NASL family | FreeBSD Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | FREEBSD_PKG_C61CA9CB64C311DD954D006097BCC5F4.NASL |
| description | James Yonan reports : Security Fix - affects non-Windows OpenVPN clients running OpenVPN 2.1-beta14 through 2.1-rc8 (OpenVPN 2.0.x clients are NOT vulnerable nor are any versions of the OpenVPN server vulnerable). An OpenVPN client connecting to a malicious or compromised server could potentially receive an |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 33857 |
| published | 2008-08-11 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/33857 |
| title | FreeBSD : openvpn-devel -- arbitrary code execution (c61ca9cb-64c3-11dd-954d-006097bcc5f4) |