CVE-2023-46850 is a critical use-after-free vulnerability affecting OpenVPN versions 2.6.0 to 2.6.6, including distributions like Debian and Fedora. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it allows unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote execution, memory leaks, or undefined behavior by sending specially crafted network buffers. While highly severe, there is currently no public exploit code, Metasploit modules, or evidence of active exploitation, and it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 2.6.0, <= 2.6.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* | ||
>= 2.11.0, <= 2.11.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn_access_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 2.12.0, < 2.12.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn_access_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
12.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:12.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
39CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:39:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.