CVE-2026-78043

State: Published
Severity: 5.6 Medium
Published: Sep 7, 2026
Updated: Sep 8, 2026
Reserved: Aug 26, 2026

Description

The Windows Interactive Service in OpenVPN 2.7_alpha1 through 2.7.6 allows local authenticated users to bypass the trusted configuration directory constraint and load arbitrary configuration files via specially crafted paths

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	5.6 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:H/SA:N	OpenVPN

Weaknesses

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
OpenVPNOpenVPN	2.7_alpha1 through 2.7.6Affected

References

https://community.openvpn.net/Security%20Announcements/CVE-2026-78043vendor-advisory

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