CVE-2026-41070

CRITICAL

openvpn-auth-oauth2 returns FUNC_SUCCESS on client-deny, allowing unauthenticated VPN access

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

openvpn-auth-oauth2 is a plugin/management interface client for OpenVPN server to handle an OIDC based single sign-on (SSO) auth flows. From version 1.26.3 to before version 1.27.3, when openvpn-auth-oauth2 is deployed in the experimental plugin mode (shared library loaded by OpenVPN via the plugin directive), clients that do not support WebAuth/SSO (e.g., the openvpn CLI on Linux) are incorrectly admitted to the VPN despite being denied by the authentication logic. The default management-interface mode is not affected because it does not use the OpenVPN plugin return-code mechanism. This issue has been patched in version 1.27.3.

Scores

CVSS v3 10.0
EPSS 0.0002
EPSS Percentile 7.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-287
Status published
Products (2)
jkroepke/openvpn-auth-oauth2 1.26.3 - 1.27.3Go
jkroepke/openvpn-auth-oauth2 >= 1.26.3, < 1.27.3
Published May 08, 2026
Tracked Since May 08, 2026