{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-27903 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2024-27903 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2024-27903 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in OpenVPN 2, published on 8 Jul 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2024-27903 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-27903 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in OpenVPN 2, published on 8 Jul 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-27903 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: OpenVPN 2. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-27903/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-27903/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-27903","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-27903/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-27903","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-63q4-8wcf-wg8f"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["privilege_escalation","code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"OpenVPN Windows client","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"Attackers can load arbitrary plugins from any directory to interact with the privileged OpenVPN service, enabling privilege escalation and code execution.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"OpenVPN","cpe":[{"product":"openvpn","vendor":"openvpn"}],"cvss":{"score":7.2,"severity":"high","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-434","name":"Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type"},{"id":"CWE-283","name":"Unverified Ownership"}],"description":"OpenVPN plug-ins on Windows with OpenVPN 2.6.9 and earlier could be loaded from any directory, which allows an attacker to load an arbitrary plug-in which can be used to interact with the privileged OpenVPN interactive service.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":false,"headline":"Path traversal in OpenVPN 2","id":"CVE-2024-27903","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2024"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"Apache Aurora: padding oracle can allow construction an authentication cookie","id":"CVE-2024-27905"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP applications based on SAPGUI for HTML (WebGUI)","id":"CVE-2024-27902"},"products":["OpenVPN 2"],"published":"2024-07-08","related":[{"cvss_score":9.1,"headline":"Memory corruption in OpenVPN","id":"CVE-2025-12106","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-12-01"},{"cvss_score":9.1,"headline":"Information disclosure in OpenVPN","id":"CVE-2024-5594","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-01-06"},{"cvss_score":9.1,"headline":"Cross-site request forgery in n/a","id":"CVE-2018-7544","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-03-16"},{"cvss_score":9,"headline":"Code injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2006-1629","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2006-04-06"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Privilege escalation in OpenVPN","id":"CVE-2024-4877","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-04-03"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Code injection in OpenVPN-GUI","id":"CVE-2021-3606","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-07-02"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Use after free in n/a","id":"CVE-2018-9336","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-05-01"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-23","vendors":["OpenVPN"]},"summary":"Attackers can load arbitrary plugins from any directory to interact with the privileged OpenVPN service, enabling privilege escalation and code execution.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-27903/"}