Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name CVE-2017-12166 First vendor Publication 2017-10-03
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2022-05-12

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 9.8
Base Score 9.8 Environmental Score 9.8
impact SubScore 5.9 Temporal Score 9.8
Exploitabality Sub Score 3.9
 
Attack Vector Network Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

OpenVPN versions before 2.3.3 and 2.4.x before 2.4.4 are vulnerable to a buffer overflow vulnerability when key-method 1 is used, possibly resulting in code execution.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-12166

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 169
Application 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-01-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-5882331351.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-11-06 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2017-920.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-10-30 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-1202.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-10-25 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-2838-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-10-25 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-2839-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-10-06 Name : An application on the remote host is affected by a bufferoverflow vulnerability.
File : openvpn_2_3_18_and_2_4_4_win.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-10-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-700915e34f.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-09-28 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_3dd6ccf4a3c611e7a52e0800279f2ff8.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101153
MISC https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2017-12166
MLIST https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00002.html
SECTRACK http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039470

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2022-10-11 12:34:33
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2022-05-13 00:23:25
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2022-05-03 21:23:35
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2020-05-23 02:02:44
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2017-11-07 13:25:03
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2017-10-31 13:25:29
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2017-10-26 13:24:57
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2017-10-12 21:23:35
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2017-10-07 13:25:06
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2017-10-07 09:22:30
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2017-10-05 09:23:11
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2017-10-04 13:25:04
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2017-10-04 09:23:21
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