CVE-2022-0547 (GCVE-0-2022-0547)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-03-18 18:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:34
VLAI?
Summary
OpenVPN 2.1 until v2.4.12 and v2.5.6 may enable authentication bypass in external authentication plug-ins when more than one of them makes use of deferred authentication replies, which allows an external user to be granted access with only partially correct credentials.
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical)
CWE
- CWE-305 - - Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness
Assigner
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