OpenVPN version 2.6.0 through 2.6.20 and 2.7_alpha1 through 2.7.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed authentication token that triggers a reachable assertion when external-auth is enabled
CVE-2026-13122
Score 5.3 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-07-06. NVD baseline CVSS 5.3; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 5.3
- EG Score
- 5.3(high)
- EG Risk
- 24(Track)EG Risk 24/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity53% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS
- 39.0%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 6, 2026
Last Modified
July 9, 2026
References (1)
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-13122(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Patch Availability(1)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | openvpn (2.7.0-1ubuntu1.2) @ resolute | 2026-07-16 | ubuntu |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
All Vendor Advisories
(1)
Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 8× in last 7d / 33× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-23 14:18 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-23 03:05 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-22 14:08 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-21 15:24 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-20 17:08 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-19 14:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-19 02:28 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-18 10:04 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-16 17:02 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-16 11:10 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-16 11:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-15 16:57 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-15 09:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-15 02:00 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-14 06:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-13 22:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-13 06:12 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-13 04:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-12 05:46 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-12 02:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-11 08:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-11 00:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-09 22:01 UTCEG score recompute▼ 0.60
- 2026-07-09 22:01 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-09 19:10 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-07-09 13:52 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 5.3
- 2026-07-08 19:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-08 15:15 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-08 15:15 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-07 17:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-07 13:46 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 15:36 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-06 15:36 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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