VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2021-27406

CVSS score8.8 HIGH

EPSS probability1.22%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2022-10-14

Last modified2026-06-17

Description

An attacker can take leverage on PerFact OpenVPN-Client versions 1.4.1.0 and prior to send the config command from any application running on the local host machine to force the back-end server into initializing a new open-VPN instance with arbitrary open-VPN configuration. This could result in the attacker achieving execution with privileges of a SYSTEM user.