CVE-2026-9560

State: Published
Severity: 9.4 Critical
Published: May 26, 2026
Updated: May 27, 2026
Reserved: May 26, 2026

Description

Privilege escalation via background service of OpenVPN Connect 3.5.1 through 3.8.1 on macOS allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges via local IPC channel

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	9.4 Critical	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H	OpenVPN
4.0	8.9 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H	OpenVPN

Weaknesses

CWE-78
CWE-267 Privilege defined with unsafe actions
CWE-270 Privilege context switching error
CWE-648 Incorrect use of privileged APIs

Affected Products

Product	Versions
OpenVPN ConnectOpenVPN Inc	3.5.1 through 3.8.1Affected

References

https://openvpn.net/connect-docs/macos-release-notes.htmlrelease-notes

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