CVE-2025-8069 | THREATINT

Description

During the AWS Client VPN client installation on Windows devices, the install process references the C:\usr\local\windows-x86_64-openssl-localbuild\ssl 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. We recommend users discontinue any new installations of AWS Client VPN on Windows prior to version 5.2.2.

Reserved 2025-07-22 | Published 2025-07-23 | Updated 2025-07-23 | Assigner AMZN

HIGH: 7.3CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

HIGH: 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

Product status

Default status

unaffected

4.1.0

affected

5.0.0 before 5.2.2

affected

References

aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2025-014/ vendor-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2025-8069)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-8069)

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