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CVE-2026-9560

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
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:0dcaebbf1abd669023b1d1dbd983d9b85d4018ab70f3519f484583def6f69553
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
2

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

cvss · 2 assertions

{"metric":{"Automatable":"NOT_DEFINED","Recovery":"NOT_DEFINED","Safety":"NOT_DEFINED","attackComplexity":"LOW","attackRequirements":"NONE","attackVector":"LOCAL","baseScore":9.4,"baseSeverity":"CRITICAL","exploitMaturity":"NOT_DEFINED","privilegesRequired":"NONE","providerUrgency":"NOT_DEFINED","subAvailabilityImpact":"HIGH","subConfidentialityImpact":"HIGH","subIntegrityImpact":"HIGH","userInteraction":"NONE","valueDensity":"NOT_DEFINED","vectorString":"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","version":"4.0","vulnAvailabilityImpact":"HIGH","vulnConfidentialityImpact"…

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:43c91ade56f7f0131eef9b3faf46addd891307d0b7aacf9f2dc4542f1d6e676b · sha256:ee8655969e0fdc41… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV4_0

{"metric":{"Automatable":"NOT_DEFINED","Recovery":"NOT_DEFINED","Safety":"NOT_DEFINED","attackComplexity":"HIGH","attackRequirements":"PRESENT","attackVector":"NETWORK","baseScore":8.9,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","exploitMaturity":"NOT_DEFINED","privilegesRequired":"NONE","providerUrgency":"NOT_DEFINED","subAvailabilityImpact":"HIGH","subConfidentialityImpact":"HIGH","subIntegrityImpact":"HIGH","userInteraction":"ACTIVE","valueDensity":"NOT_DEFINED","vectorString":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H","version":"4.0","vulnAvailabilityImpact":"HIGH","vulnConfidentialityImp…

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:43c91ade56f7f0131eef9b3faf46addd891307d0b7aacf9f2dc4542f1d6e676b · sha256:ee8655969e0fdc41… · /containers/cna/metrics/1/cvssV4_0
cwe · 4 assertions

{"cweId":"CWE-270","description":"CWE-270 Privilege context switching error","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:43c91ade56f7f0131eef9b3faf46addd891307d0b7aacf9f2dc4542f1d6e676b · sha256:ee8655969e0fdc41… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/2/descriptions/0

{"cweId":"CWE-648","description":"CWE-648 Incorrect use of privileged APIs","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:43c91ade56f7f0131eef9b3faf46addd891307d0b7aacf9f2dc4542f1d6e676b · sha256:ee8655969e0fdc41… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/3/descriptions/0

{"cweId":"CWE-267","description":"CWE-267 Privilege defined with unsafe actions","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:43c91ade56f7f0131eef9b3faf46addd891307d0b7aacf9f2dc4542f1d6e676b · sha256:ee8655969e0fdc41… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/1/descriptions/0

{"cweId":"CWE-78","description":"CWE-78","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:43c91ade56f7f0131eef9b3faf46addd891307d0b7aacf9f2dc4542f1d6e676b · sha256:ee8655969e0fdc41… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Affected products and versions

1 source assertion
{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","platforms":["MacOS"],"product":"OpenVPN Connect","vendor":"OpenVPN Inc","versions":[{"lessThanOrEqual":"3.8.1","status":"affected","version":"3.5.1","versionType":"semver"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:43c91ade56f7f0131eef9b3faf46addd891307d0b7aacf9f2dc4542f1d6e676b · sha256:ee8655969e0fdc41… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Provider-owned CVSS observations

2 source assertions
{"metric":{"Automatable":"NOT_DEFINED","Recovery":"NOT_DEFINED","Safety":"NOT_DEFINED","attackComplexity":"LOW","attackRequirements":"NONE","attackVector":"LOCAL","baseScore":9.4,"baseSeverity":"CRITICAL","exploitMaturity":"NOT_DEFINED","privilegesRequired":"NONE","providerUrgency":"NOT_DEFINED","subAvailabilityImpact":"HIGH","subConfidentialityImpact":"HIGH","subIntegrityImpact":"HIGH","userInteraction":"NONE","valueDensity":"NOT_DEFINED","vectorString":"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","version":"4.0","vulnAvailabilityImpact":"HIGH","vulnConfidentialityImpact"…
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:43c91ade56f7f0131eef9b3faf46addd891307d0b7aacf9f2dc4542f1d6e676b · sha256:ee8655969e0fdc41… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV4_0
{"metric":{"Automatable":"NOT_DEFINED","Recovery":"NOT_DEFINED","Safety":"NOT_DEFINED","attackComplexity":"HIGH","attackRequirements":"PRESENT","attackVector":"NETWORK","baseScore":8.9,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","exploitMaturity":"NOT_DEFINED","privilegesRequired":"NONE","providerUrgency":"NOT_DEFINED","subAvailabilityImpact":"HIGH","subConfidentialityImpact":"HIGH","subIntegrityImpact":"HIGH","userInteraction":"ACTIVE","valueDensity":"NOT_DEFINED","vectorString":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H","version":"4.0","vulnAvailabilityImpact":"HIGH","vulnConfidentialityImp…
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:43c91ade56f7f0131eef9b3faf46addd891307d0b7aacf9f2dc4542f1d6e676b · sha256:ee8655969e0fdc41… · /containers/cna/metrics/1/cvssV4_0

CWE assertions

4 source assertions
{"cweId":"CWE-270","description":"CWE-270 Privilege context switching error","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:43c91ade56f7f0131eef9b3faf46addd891307d0b7aacf9f2dc4542f1d6e676b · sha256:ee8655969e0fdc41… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/2/descriptions/0
{"cweId":"CWE-648","description":"CWE-648 Incorrect use of privileged APIs","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:43c91ade56f7f0131eef9b3faf46addd891307d0b7aacf9f2dc4542f1d6e676b · sha256:ee8655969e0fdc41… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/3/descriptions/0
{"cweId":"CWE-267","description":"CWE-267 Privilege defined with unsafe actions","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:43c91ade56f7f0131eef9b3faf46addd891307d0b7aacf9f2dc4542f1d6e676b · sha256:ee8655969e0fdc41… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/1/descriptions/0
{"cweId":"CWE-78","description":"CWE-78","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:43c91ade56f7f0131eef9b3faf46addd891307d0b7aacf9f2dc4542f1d6e676b · sha256:ee8655969e0fdc41… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Source references

1 source assertion
{"tags":["release-notes"],"url":"https://openvpn.net/connect-docs/macos-release-notes.html"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:43c91ade56f7f0131eef9b3faf46addd891307d0b7aacf9f2dc4542f1d6e676b · sha256:ee8655969e0fdc41… · /containers/cna/references/0

Attribution and limitations

  • CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

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