CVE-2026-84226

State: Published
Severity: 8.5 High
Published: Sep 7, 2026
Updated: Sep 8, 2026
Reserved: Sep 1, 2026

Description

OpenVPN version 2.5.0 through 2.6.22 and 2.7_alpha1 through 2.7.6 on Windows allows local authenticated users to perform a binary planting attack during network configuration steps

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	8.5 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	OpenVPN

Weaknesses

CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path

Affected Products

Product	Versions
OpenVPNOpenVPN	2.5.0 through 2.6.22Affected 2.7_alpha1 through 2.7.6Affected

References

https://community.openvpn.net/Security%20Announcements/CVE-2026-84226vendor-advisory

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