Re: [Openvpn-users] Current openvpn(related) CVEs

2021-11-23 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 11:13 AM Selva Nair wrote: > > > 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 t

Re: [Openvpn-users] Current openvpn(related) CVEs

2021-11-23 Thread Selva Nair
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 fro

Re: [Openvpn-users] [ext] Re: Current openvpn(related) CVEs

2021-11-23 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
> ... so it seems our code already does this: generate a random password, > and protect the management interface with it. YAY! > ceterum censeo: if you build a product that incorporates OpenVPN, > do not run it with SYSTEM privileges and without a password, but have > a look at how other peopl

Re: [Openvpn-users] Current openvpn(related) CVEs

2021-11-23 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 02:49:10PM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt 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

[Openvpn-users] Current openvpn(related) CVEs

2021-11-23 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
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