On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 8:51 AM Ralf Hildebrandt <
ralf.hildebra...@charite.de> wrote:

> Yeah, it's in german, but anyway:
>
> https://www.heise.de/news/FBI-warnt-vor-Einbruechen-via-VPN-Software-6274101.html
>
> "An attacker can take leverage on this architecture and send the
> config command from any application running on the local host machine
> to force the back-end server into initializing a new open-VPN instance
> with arbitrary open-VPN configuration. This could result in the
> attacker achieving execution with privileges of a SYSTEM user."


> Are there any plans of protecting the management interface (i.e. on
> Windows-Client) using a random passwod, only known to the GUI &
> openvpn process?
>

OpenVPN GUI has always used a random password for the management interface.
Its cleared from memory on first use and not saved anywhere. I know of no
GUI versions where this was not done.

Selva
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