CriticalFix available
openvpn — security advisory
OpenVPN 2.1 until v2.4.12 and v2.5.6 may enable authentication bypass in external authentication plug-ins when more than one of them makes use of deferred authentication replies, which allows an external user to be granted access with only partially correct credentials.
- Products
- openvpn
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.5.6-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-0547
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 14:39 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
OpenVPN 2.1 until v2.4.12 and v2.5.6 may enable authentication bypass in external authentication plug-ins when more than one of them makes use of deferred authentication replies, which allows an external user to be granted access with only partially correct credentials.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-0547
openvpn
Fixed versions: 2.5.6-1
openvpn
Fixed versions: 2.5.6-1
openvpn
Fixed versions: 2.5.6-1
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 322853,
"published_at": "2022-03-18T18:15:12.017+00:00"
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