Improper Enforcement of Behavioral Workflow Affecting openvpn package, versions [2.6.0,2.6.17)[2.7-alpha1,2.7-rc3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (7th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-OPENVPN-14401434
  • published12 Dec 2025
  • disclosed3 Dec 2025
  • creditMarc Heuse

Introduced: 3 Dec 2025

CVE-2025-13751  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-775  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-841  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade openvpn to version 2.6.17, 2.7-rc3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Enforcement of Behavioral Workflow in the service pipe. An attacker can cause a service interruption by connecting locally and triggering a file access race and access by unauthorized processes (ACL).

Note:

This issue affects only Windows users.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1