01 Record
CVE-2018-9336
openvpnserv.exe (aka the interactive service helper) in OpenVPN 2.4.x before 2.4.6 allows a local attacker to cause a double-free of memory by sending a malformed request to the interactive service.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
openvpnserv.exe (aka the interactive service helper) in OpenVPN 2.4.x before 2.4.6 allows a local attacker to cause a double-free of memory by sending a malformed request to the interactive service.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.58% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 47.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2018-05-01 18:00Z8 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 07:17Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2018-04-05
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-415Double FreeVariant
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- dd4e4d81c98c55b086ecc2474fb940c033c86419b466972283c5d42c44a85506
05 Affected products
06 References
- github.comhttps://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/releases/tag/v2.4.6
- www.slackware.comSSA:2018-116-01http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2018&m=slackware-security.568761
- www.tenable.comhttps://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2018-09
- github.comhttps://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/commit/1394192b210cb3c6624a7419bcf3ff966742e79b
- community.openvpn.nethttps://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/ChangesInOpenvpn24