Is OpenVPN 2.5.8 affected?
Oct 28, 2022 · Release notes ↗
8 known vulnerabilities affect 2.5.8 (highest CVSS 9.8).
Your branch 2.5 has reached end of life (Jul 31, 2025).
36 newer releases in its track, up to 2.7.8. What changed up to 2.7.8
Vulnerabilities affecting 2.5.8
- 9.8 CVE-2024-27903 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 privilege… fixed in 2.5.10
- 8.8 CVE-2024-4877 OpenVPN version 2.4.0 through 2.6.10 on Windows allows an external, lesser privileged process to create a named pipe which the OpenVPN GUI component would connect to allowing it to escalate its pri… fixed in 2.6.11
- 8.1 CVE-2026-12932 A memory leak in the tls-crypt-v2 client key extraction in OpenVPN 2.5.0 through 2.6.20 and 2.7_alpha1 through 2.7.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a f… fixed in 2.6.21
- 7.8 CVE-2024-27459 The interactive service in OpenVPN 2.6.9 and earlier allows an attacker to send data causing a stack overflow which can be used to execute arbitrary code with more privileges. fixed in 2.5.10
- 7.5 CVE-2026-11771 OpenVPN version 2.1.0 through 2.6.20 and 2.7_alpha1 through 2.7.4 allows attackers via an off-by-one buffer write in the NTLM proxy authentication to potentially cause a crash via a crafted NTLM re… fixed in 2.6.21
- 7.5 CVE-2026-13698 A memory leak in OpenVPN version 2.5.0 through 2.5.11, 2.6.0 through 2.6.20 and 2.7_alpha1 through 2.7.4 allows remote attackers with a valid tls-crypt-v2 client key to potentially cause a denial o…
- 7.5 CVE-2024-24974 The interactive service in OpenVPN 2.6.9 and earlier allows the OpenVPN service pipe to be accessed remotely, which allows a remote attacker to interact with the privileged OpenVPN interactive serv… fixed in 2.5.10
- 5.5 CVE-2025-13751 Interactive service agent in OpenVPN version 2.5.0 through 2.6.16 and 2.7_alpha1 through 2.7_rc2 on Windows allows a local authenticated user to connect to the service and trigger an error causing… fixed in 2.6.17
Newer releases
| 2.7.8 | Oct 6, 2026 | 2.5.8 → 2.7.8 |
| 2.7.7 | Sep 3, 2026 | 2.5.8 → 2.7.7 |
| 2.7.6 | Aug 4, 2026 | 2.5.8 → 2.7.6 |
| 2.7.5 | Jul 1, 2026 | 2.5.8 → 2.7.5 |
| 2.7.4 | Apr 30, 2026 | 2.5.8 → 2.7.4 |
| 2.7.3 | Apr 27, 2026 | 2.5.8 → 2.7.3 |
| 2.7.2 | Apr 21, 2026 | 2.5.8 → 2.7.2 |
| 2.7.1 | Mar 31, 2026 | 2.5.8 → 2.7.1 |
| 2.7.0 | Feb 11, 2026 | 2.5.8 → 2.7.0 |
| 2.6.23 | Sep 23, 2026 | 2.5.8 → 2.6.23 |
| 2.6.22 | Aug 5, 2026 | 2.5.8 → 2.6.22 |
| 2.6.21 | Jul 1, 2026 | 2.5.8 → 2.6.21 |
| 2.6.20 | Apr 22, 2026 | 2.5.8 → 2.6.20 |
| 2.6.19 | Feb 4, 2026 | 2.5.8 → 2.6.19 |
| 2.6.18 | Feb 3, 2026 | 2.5.8 → 2.6.18 |