Bug 2517349

Summary:	CVE-2026-63649 openvpn: OpenVPN: Privilege escalation via arbitrary configuration file loading [epel-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Srikanth Balasubramanian <sbalasub>
Component:	openvpn	Assignee:	Frank Lichtenheld <frank>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	high
Version:	epel10	CC:	dazo, frank, huzaifas, kalevlember, steve
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Description Srikanth Balasubramanian 2026-08-17 10:45:21 UTC

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The Windows interactive service in OpenVPN 2.4.0 through 2.6.21 and 2.7_alpha1 through 2.7.5 allows local authenticated users to bypass the trusted configuration directory constraint and load arbitrary configuration files via crafted options that bypass whitelist checks

Comment 1 Frank Lichtenheld 2026-08-17 12:15:23 UTC

Only affects Windows