CVE-2023-6247

Published: Feb 29, 2024Modified: Jun 17, 2026

6.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 2.8 / Impact: 3.6

Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Description

The PKCS#7 parser in OpenVPN 3 Core Library versions through 3.8.3 did not properly validate the parsed data, which would result in the application crashing.

Affected (1)

Products: Openvpn: Openvpn 3

Openvpn

1 product

Openvpn 3

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Openvpn Openvpn 3	Before 3.8.4

Related CWEs

CWE-476

NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

References (2)

https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2023-6247

Source: security@openvpn.net

PatchVendor Advisory

https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2023-6247

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

PatchVendor Advisory

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