CVE-2024-1305

CRITICAL EPSS 96.4%

Published Jul 8, 20241y ago · Modified Jun 17, 20261w ago

9.8 CVSS 3.1

Critical

Published Jul 8, 2024 1y ago

Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 1w ago

Description

tap-windows6 driver version 9.26 and earlier does not properly check the size data of incomming write operations which an attacker can use to overflow memory buffers, resulting in a bug check and potentially arbitrary code execution in kernel space

CVSS Details

Base Score

9.8

Exploitability

3.9

Impact

5.9

Vector string

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

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

User Interaction None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality High

Integrity High

Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability

96.4% percentile

Exploit & Patch Status

No Known Exploit

No Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound Numeric Error

Affected Products 1

Vendor	Product	Version	Range
openvpn	tap-windows6	*	≤9.26.0

References 2

community.openvpn.net https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2024-1305

Vendor Advisory
mail-archive.com https://www.mail-archive.com/openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg07534.html

Mailing ListRelease Notes

Remediation

No remediation data recorded yet

Check vendor advisories and the NVD entry for patch availability.