High
Security advisory
Control Channel in OpenVPN 2.4.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted reset packet.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-20813
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:41 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Control Channel in OpenVPN 2.4.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted reset packet.
osv:CVE-2020-20813
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-20813",
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:32.508476929Z",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2023-08-22T19:16:08.247+00:00"
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