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CVE-2012-3486

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-3486 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Tunnelblick 3.3beta20 and earlier, affecting Google Tunnelblick. An attacker can exploit this by crafting a malicious OpenVPN configuration file that executes arbitrary scripts when an OpenVPN event occurs. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.9, indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires medium attack complexity and local access. There is no public exploit code available, nor is there evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.3beta20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:tunnelblick:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.9MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.28%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
20.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0028 is in the 10th percentile among its peer group of 1,595 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/fulldisclosure/2012-08/0122.html
code.google.com / p/tunnelblick/issues/detail
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/08/14/1