{"id":66836,"date":"2025-07-23T21:31:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-8069-aws-client-vpn-windows-openssl-configuration-file-execution\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T21:31:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:01:29","slug":"cve-2025-8069-aws-client-vpn-windows-openssl-configuration-file-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-8069-aws-client-vpn-windows-openssl-configuration-file-execution\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-8069 &#8211; AWS Client VPN Windows OpenSSL Configuration File Execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CVE ID : <\/strong>CVE-2025-8069<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Published : <\/strong> July 23, 2025, 4:15 p.m. | 45\u00a0minutes ago<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Description : <\/strong>During the AWS Client VPN client installation on Windows devices, the install process references the C:usrlocalwindows-x86_64-openssl-localbuildssl directory location to fetch the OpenSSL configuration file. As a result, a non-admin user could place arbitrary code in the configuration file. If an admin user starts the AWS Client VPN client installation process, that code could be executed with root-level privileges. This issue does not affect Linux or Mac devices. <\/p>\n<p>We recommend users discontinue any new installations of AWS Client VPN on Windows prior to version 5.2.2.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Severity:<\/strong> 7.8 | HIGH<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVisit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-8069 Published : July 23, 2025, 4:15 p.m. | 45\u00a0minutes ago Description : During the AWS Client VPN client installation on Windows devices, the install process references the C:usrlocalwindows-x86_64-openssl-localbuildssl directory location to fetch the OpenSSL configuration file. As a result, a non-admin user could place arbitrary code in the configuration file. If &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}