Bug 2406190 (CVE-2025-10680)

Summary: CVE-2025-10680 openvpn: Openvpn shell command injection
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A shell injection vector has been discovered in OpenVPN. The pushed --dns and --dhcp-option arguments are not properly sanitised when passing them to the --dns-updown script hook, allowing them to inject additional commands being performed on the client.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-24 11:01:41 UTC
OpenVPN 2.7_alpha1 through 2.7_beta1 on POSIX based platforms allows a remote authenticated server to inject shell commands via DNS variables when --dns-updown is in use