CVE-2023-7235: Openvpn GUI

High severity, CVSS 8.4. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The OpenVPN GUI installer before version 2.6.9 did not set the proper access control restrictions to the installation directory of OpenVPN binaries when using a non-standard installation path, which allows an attacker to replace binaries to run arbitrary executables.

Affected products

• Openvpn Openvpn GUI: before 2.6.9 (fixed in 2.6.9)

Published 2024-02-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.