OpenVPN up to 2.4.8 Data Channel race condition

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in OpenVPN up to 2.4.8. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Data Channel Handler. Such manipulation leads to race condition. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2020-11810. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in OpenVPN up to 2.4.8 (Network Encryption Software). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component Data Channel Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a race condition vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-362. The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

An issue was discovered in OpenVPN 2.4.x before 2.4.9. An attacker can inject a data channel v2 (P_DATA_V2) packet using a victim's peer-id. Normally such packets are dropped, but if this packet arrives before the data channel crypto parameters have been initialized, the victim's connection will be dropped. This requires careful timing due to the small time window (usually within a few seconds) between the victim client connection starting and the server PUSH_REPLY response back to the client. This attack will only work if Negotiable Cipher Parameters (NCP) is in use.

The weakness was published 04/27/2020 as Bug 1169925 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is available at bugzilla.suse.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-11810 since 04/15/2020. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 2.4.9 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• Network Encryption Software

Name

• OpenVPN

Version

• 2.4.0
• 2.4.1
• 2.4.2
• 2.4.3
• 2.4.4
• 2.4.5
• 2.4.6
• 2.4.7
• 2.4.8

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/

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