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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2021-31604
CVE-2021-31604:
Python vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
furlongm openvpn-monitor through version 1.1.3 contains a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability that allows attackers to disconnect arbitrary clients. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed in September 2021 (NVD, PacketStorm).
Technical details
The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.5 MEDIUM (Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) and CVSS v2.0 base score of 4.3 MEDIUM (Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P). The vulnerability is tracked as CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (NVD).
Impact
If exploited, this vulnerability allows an attacker to disconnect arbitrary OpenVPN clients from the VPN server through a CSRF attack, leading to a denial of service condition for affected clients (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users should upgrade to a version newer than 1.1.3. Version 1.1.3 was noted as the last release to support Python 2 (GitHub).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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