CVE-2024-1305

critical

Description

tap-windows6 driver version 9.26 and earlier does not properly check the size data of incomming write operations which an attacker can use to overflow memory buffers, resulting in a bug check and potentially arbitrary code execution in kernel space

References

References
More

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-25-072-10

https://thehackernews.com/2024/08/microsoft-reveals-four-openvpn-flaws.html

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/08/08/chained-for-attack-openvpn-vulnerabilities-discovered-leading-to-rce-and-lpe/

https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg07534.html

https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2024-1305

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-07-08

Updated: 2025-08-22

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H