Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2017-7522

OpenVPN versions before 2.4.3 and before 2.3.17 are vulnerable to denial-of-service by authenticated remote attacker via sending a certificate with an embedded NULL character.

  • Published: Jun 27, 2017
  • Updated: Nov 9, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2017-7522
  • Severity: Low
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 4
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
openvpn / openvpn - 2.3.16.x
openvpn / openvpn 2.4.0 2.4.0.x
openvpn / openvpn 2.4.2 2.4.2.x
openvpn / openvpn 2.4.0-beta1 2.4.0-beta1.x
openvpn / openvpn 2.4.0-rc1 2.4.0-rc1.x
openvpn / openvpn 2.4.0-beta2 2.4.0-beta2.x
openvpn / openvpn 2.4.0-alpha2 2.4.0-alpha2.x
openvpn / openvpn 2.4.1 2.4.1.x
openvpn / openvpn 2.4.0-rc2 2.4.0-rc2.x