CVE-2026-9560

FAUCET Score

Privilege escalation via background service of OpenVPN Connect 3.5.1 through 3.8.1 on macOS allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges via local IPC channel

First published: May 26, 2026Last modified: May 26, 2026

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		>= 3.5.1, < 3.8.2CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:connect::::::macos::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

9.4CRITICAL

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Attack Requirements

NONE

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

VS Confidentiality

HIGH

VS Integrity

HIGH

VS Availability

HIGH

SS Confidentiality

HIGH

SS Integrity

HIGH

SS Availability

HIGH

Exploit Maturity

NOT_DEFINED

CvssVersion

4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.57%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

44.0%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-26

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0057 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media 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.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

openvpn.net / connect-docs/macos-release-notes.html

Release Notes