Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-33738

High

Published: 06 July 2022

Published
06 July 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0032 55.7th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-33738 is a high-severity Insufficient Entropy (CWE-331) vulnerability in Openvpn Openvpn Access Server. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 44.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

OpenVPN Access Server before 2.11 uses a weak random generator used to create user session token for the web portal

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

openvpn
openvpn access server
≤ 2.11.0

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-331 CWE-338

Approved key-establishment methods mandate sufficient entropy during key generation, eliminating entropy-starved keys.

addresses: CWE-338

Security associations share details on cryptographically weak PRNGs, helping avoid their implementation in security-critical functions.

References