CVE-2026-31893Tunnelblick is an open source graphic user interface for OpenVPN on macOS.
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Tunnelblick is an open source graphic user interface for OpenVPN on macOS. In versions 3.3beta26 through 9.0beta01, any local user can read arbitrary root-owned files by exploiting a symlink following vulnerability in tunnelblick-helper, reachable through the world-accessible tunnelblickd Unix socket. The socket is configured with mode 0666, allowing any local user to connect. No authorization check is performed on the connecting client. The tunnelblick-helper process constructs a path to config.ovpn inside a user-controlled .tblk directory and reads it as root without symlink validation. An attacker can create a .tblk configuration with a symlinked config.ovpn pointing to any file and request tunnelblickd to read it. This issue has been fixed in versions 9.0beta02.
- CVSS
- 5.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-61
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- Not given
- NVD analysis
- Analyzed
- Record last updated
- Jul 25, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
tunnelblick tunnelblick tunnelblick:tunnelblick | from 3.5.3 before 8.0.1; 3.3; 8.1; 8.1; 8.1; 9.0 | NVD |
References
- https://github.com/Tunnelblick/Tunnelblick/releases/tag/v9.0beta02product, release-notes
- https://github.com/Tunnelblick/Tunnelblick/security/advisories/GHSA-927j-vcjf-hq69exploit, vendor-advisory
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