Medium severity6.3NVD Advisory· Published Jun 27, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2024-28820
CVE-2024-28820
Description
Buffer overflow in the extract_openvpn_cr function in openvpn-cr.c in openvpn-auth-ldap (aka the Three Rings Auth-LDAP plugin for OpenVPN) 2.0.4 allows attackers with a valid LDAP username and who can control the challenge/response password field to pass a string with more than 14 colons into this field and cause a buffer overflow.
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- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: <=2.0.4
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