7.5

CVE-2005-3393: openvpn

CVSS: 7.5v2.0HighModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2005-3393
Published 01-11-2005Last modified 07-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2005-3393 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in openvpn. EPSS estimates a 3.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
3.48%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 1

Timeline

  1. 01-11-2005
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Format string vulnerability in the foreign_option function in options.c for OpenVPN 2.0.x allows remote clients to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a push of the dhcp-option command option.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

3.48%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

89%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 3.48% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
3.48%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Openvpn2 products
Debian1 product
  • openvpn< 2.0.5-1

2 vendors · 3 products

References

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