8.8

CVE-2024-4877: openvpn Privilege Chaining

CVSS: 8.8v3.1HighAnalyzed
AliasesALPINE-CVE-2024-4877
Published 03-04-2025Last modified 04-04-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-4877 is a high (CVSS 8.8) Privilege Chaining vulnerability in openvpn. EPSS estimates a 0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 36.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
35/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.43%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 03-04-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 04-04-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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 privileges

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.43%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

36%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 0.43% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.43%

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

Affected systems

Alpine1 product
  • openvpn≥ 2.4.0 (No fix recorded)
Openvpn1 product
  • openvpn≥ 2.4.0, ≤ 2.6.11 | ≥ 2.4.0, < 2.6.11

2 vendors · 2 products

References

3 links