CVE-2023-7245 (GCVE-0-2023-7245)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-02-20 11:08
Modified
2024-08-14 14:36
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-95 - Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code ('Eval Injection')
Summary
The nodejs framework in OpenVPN Connect 3.0 through 3.4.3 (Windows)/3.4.7 (macOS) was not properly configured, which allows a local user to execute arbitrary code within the nodejs process context via the ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE environment variable
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
OpenVPN OpenVPN Connect Version: 3.0 (Windows)
Version: 3.0 (macOS)
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