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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2025-13086 json

Improper validation of source IP addresses in OpenVPN version 2.6.0 through 2.6.15 and 2.7_alpha1 through 2.7_rc1 allows an attacker to ope…

published 2025-12-03 11 mo ago modified 2026-09-25 44 d ago also EUVD-2025-201102

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 52%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Improper validation of source IP addresses in OpenVPN version 2.6.0 through 2.6.15 and 2.7_alpha1 through 2.7_rc1 allows an attacker to open a session from a different IP address which did not initiate the connection resulting in a denial of service for the originating client

Patch / fix

  • openvpn openvpn 2.6.16, 2.7_rc2
  • openvpn Debian 12 2.6.3-1+deb12u4
  • openvpn Debian 13 2.6.14-1+deb13u1
  • openvpn Debian 14 2.7.0~rc2-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-13086

  • openvpn Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 2.6.14-0ubuntu0.24.04.3
  • openvpn Ubuntu 25.10 2.6.14-2ubuntu1.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-13086

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • openvpn SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES 15 SP6-LTSS, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 +1 more 2.6.10-150600.3.20.1
  • openvpn-dco SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES 15 SP6-LTSS, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 +1 more 2.6.10-150600.3.20.1
  • openvpn SLES for SAP applications 16.0, SLES 16.0 2.6.10-160000.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:0831-1SUSE-SU-2026:20196-1

  • openvpn openSUSE Leap 16.0 2.6.10-160000.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:20137-1

  • openvpn Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +3 more 2.6.16-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2025-13086

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-13086 updated cvss 6.5

OpenVPN: OpenVPN: Improper validation of source IP addresses leads to denial of service

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
11 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 52% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 4.6 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
CNA 4.0 4.6 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • OpenVPN OpenVPN

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-940 Improper Verification of Source of a Communication Channel

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.