VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-7521

CVSS score5.9 MEDIUM
EPSS probability3.85%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-06-27
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

OpenVPN versions before 2.4.3 and before 2.3.17 are vulnerable to remote denial-of-service due to memory exhaustion caused by memory leaks and double-free issue in extract_x509_extension().

Weakness classification

  • secalert@redhat.com: CWE-400
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-415

Primary references