CVE-2014-9104 — Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the XML-RPC API in the Desktop Client in OpenVPN Access Server 1.5.6 and earlier allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) disconnecting established VPN sessions, (2) connect to arbitrary VPN servers, or (3) create VPN profiles and execute arbitrary commands via crafted API requests

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Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the XML-RPC API in the Desktop Client in OpenVPN Access Server 1.5.6 and earlier allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) disconnecting established VPN sessions, (2) connect to arbitrary VPN servers, or (3) create VPN profiles and execute arbitrary commands via crafted API requests

Published Nov 26, 2014

6.8

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.88%

Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the XML-RPC API in the Desktop Client in OpenVPN Access Server 1.5.6 and earlier allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) disconnecting established VPN sessions, (2) connect to arbitrary VPN servers, or (3) create VPN profiles and execute arbitrary commands via crafted API requests.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.88% 0.00883

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00883

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (12 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.88% (0.00883)	57.71th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.88% (0.00883)	54.31th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.23% (0.00234)	44.25th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 17, 2024	2.47% (0.02466)	89.72th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Dec 12, 2024	0.58% (0.00579)	78.78th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 10, 2024	0.49% (0.00494)	75.49th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.41% (0.00410)	73.18th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.41% (0.00410)	69.80th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.61th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 17, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.22th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	64.21th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	40.54th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-352

CSRF

References (5)

http://openvpn.net/index.php/access-server/security-advisories.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Jul/76
mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCExploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/532795/100/0/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://www.sec-consult.com/fxdata/seccons/prod/temedia/advisories_txt/20140716-1_OpenVPN_Access_Server_Desktop_Client_Remote_Code_Execution_via_CSRF_v10.txt
x_refsource_MISCExploit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhgysgfvQh8
x_refsource_MISCExploit

Link	Providers	Tags
http://openvpn.net/index.php/access-server/security-advisories.html		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Jul/76		mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCExploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/532795/100/0/threaded		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://www.sec-consult.com/fxdata/seccons/prod/temedia/advisories_txt/20140716-1_OpenVPN_Access_Server_Desktop_Client_Remote_Code_Execution_via_CSRF_v10.txt		x_refsource_MISCExploit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhgysgfvQh8		x_refsource_MISCExploit

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Nov 26, 2014

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Nov 26, 2014

Link CVE-2014-9104

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2014-9104

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2014-9104