CVE-2026-84471
The fix for CVE-2026-12996 was incomplete
- Risk score
- 50/100
- CVSS
- 7.2 v4.0
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.4%
- Published
- 14 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- The fix for CVE-2026-12996 was incomplete. A use-after-free in OpenVPN 2.6.0 through 2.6.22 and 2.7_alpha1 through 2.7.7 allows remote authenticated peers to potentially cause a denial of service or leak memory via crafted packets during TLS session promotion or expiry.
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 7.2 high
References
Original description
The fix for CVE-2026-12996 was incomplete. A use-after-free in OpenVPN 2.6.0 through 2.6.22 and 2.7_alpha1 through 2.7.7 allows remote authenticated peers to potentially cause a denial of service or leak memory via crafted packets during TLS session promotion or expiry.
Last activity 14 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.