What is CVE-2024-13454?

CVE-2024-13454 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Openvpn Easy-Rsa, classified under Inadequate Encryption Strength. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2025-01-20.

How severe is CVE-2024-13454?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-13454 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Openvpn Easy-Rsa

CVE-2024-13454

Weak encryption algorithm in Easy-RSA version 3.0.5 through 3.1.7 allows a local attacker to more easily bruteforce the private CA key when created using OpenSSL 3

EPSS: 0.001 (0.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L.

Affected products

Openvpn Easy-rsa — versions 3.0.5

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-326 — Inadequate Encryption Strength

Public proof-of-concept exploits

chnzzh/OpenSSL-CVE-lib

References

security@openvpn.net (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-13454?: CVE-2024-13454 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Openvpn Easy-Rsa, classified under Inadequate Encryption Strength. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2025-01-20.
How severe is CVE-2024-13454?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-13454 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.