CVE-2026-13698

HIGHNVD 7.57.5—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-07-06. NVD baseline CVSS 7.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
7.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 7.5Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

A memory leak in OpenVPN version 2.5.0 through 2.5.11, 2.6.0 through 2.6.20 and 2.7_alpha1 through 2.7.4 allows remote attackers with a valid tls-crypt-v2 client key to potentially cause a denial of service

CVSS v3
7.5
EG Score
7.5(medium)
EG Risk
34(Track)
EG Risk 34/100SSVC: 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 computed
Severity75% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
24%
KEV
Not listed

Published

July 6, 2026

Last Modified

July 9, 2026

References (1)

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-13698(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 / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntuopenvpn (2.7.0-1ubuntu1.2) @ resolute2026-09-18ubuntu

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.

Affected Packages

(5 across 5 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.24(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
openvpn—2.7.5-r0—
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
openvpn2.5.1-3 ... 2.7.5-1~bpo13+1 (63 versions)——
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
openvpn2.6.11-1 ... 2.6.9-1 (15 versions)2.6.14-0+deb12u2—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
openvpn2.6.14-1, 2.6.14-1+deb13u1, 2.6.14-1+deb13u22.6.14-1+deb13u3—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
openvpn2.6.14-1 ... 2.7.5-1~bpo13+1 (24 versions)2.7.5-1—

Weakness Classification(2)

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 11× in last 7d / 73× 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.

Showing the most recent 100 of 268 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-09-20 20:15 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-09-18 19:27 UTCEPSS rescore
  3. 2026-09-18 06:00 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-09-18 06:00 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-09-18 06:00 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-09-16 05:14 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-09-14 11:40 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-09-14 11:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-09-13 23:57 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-09-13 23:57 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-09-13 23:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-09-13 16:46 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-09-13 08:44 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-09-13 08:44 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-09-13 08:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-09-12 15:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-09-12 13:38 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-09-12 13:38 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-09-12 13:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-09-11 14:52 UTCEPSS rescore
  21. 2026-09-11 09:36 UTCEPSS rescore
  22. 2026-09-10 09:34 UTCEPSS rescore
  23. 2026-09-08 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  24. 2026-09-06 14:11 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-09-06 14:11 UTCVendor advisory
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  1. 2026-09-06 14:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-09-06 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  3. 2026-09-05 23:12 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-09-05 23:12 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-09-05 23:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-09-04 05:06 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-09-02 14:11 UTCEPSS rescore
  8. 2026-09-01 13:53 UTCEPSS rescore
  9. 2026-09-01 04:39 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-08-30 19:52 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-08-30 19:52 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-08-30 19:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-08-30 19:17 UTCEPSS rescore
  14. 2026-08-30 08:15 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-08-30 08:15 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-08-30 08:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-08-30 01:21 UTCEPSS rescore
  18. 2026-08-28 21:40 UTCEPSS rescore
  19. 2026-08-27 21:59 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-08-27 21:59 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-08-27 21:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-08-27 14:24 UTCEPSS rescore
  23. 2026-08-27 02:17 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-08-27 02:17 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-08-27 02:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
  26. 2026-08-26 13:56 UTCEG score recompute
  27. 2026-08-26 13:56 UTCVendor advisory
  28. 2026-08-26 13:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
  29. 2026-08-25 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
  30. 2026-08-25 12:02 UTCVendor advisory
  31. 2026-08-25 12:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
  32. 2026-08-24 20:48 UTCEG score recompute
  33. 2026-08-24 20:48 UTCVendor advisory
  34. 2026-08-24 20:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  35. 2026-08-24 04:56 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-08-24 04:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
  37. 2026-08-23 17:19 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-08-23 17:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  39. 2026-08-23 05:42 UTCEG score recompute
  40. 2026-08-23 05:42 UTCVendor advisory
  41. 2026-08-23 05:42 UTCGHSA enrichment
  42. 2026-08-23 00:19 UTCEPSS rescore
  43. 2026-08-22 18:03 UTCVendor advisory
  44. 2026-08-22 18:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
  45. 2026-08-22 04:49 UTCEG score recompute
  46. 2026-08-22 04:49 UTCVendor advisory
  47. 2026-08-22 04:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
  48. 2026-08-21 23:48 UTCEPSS rescore
  49. 2026-08-21 17:03 UTCVendor advisory
  50. 2026-08-21 17:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
  51. 2026-08-21 04:18 UTCEG score recompute
  52. 2026-08-21 04:18 UTCVendor advisory
  53. 2026-08-21 04:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
  54. 2026-08-20 22:55 UTCEPSS rescore
  55. 2026-08-20 15:49 UTCVendor advisory
  56. 2026-08-20 15:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
  57. 2026-08-20 02:31 UTCEG score recompute
  58. 2026-08-20 02:31 UTCVendor advisory
  59. 2026-08-20 02:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  60. 2026-08-19 17:03 UTCEPSS rescore
  61. 2026-08-19 10:58 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-08-19 10:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  63. 2026-08-18 23:21 UTCEG score recompute
  64. 2026-08-18 23:21 UTCVendor advisory
  65. 2026-08-18 23:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  66. 2026-08-18 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
  67. 2026-08-18 11:38 UTCVendor advisory
  68. 2026-08-18 11:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  69. 2026-08-17 23:32 UTCEG score recompute
  70. 2026-08-17 23:32 UTCVendor advisory
  71. 2026-08-17 23:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  72. 2026-08-17 11:50 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-08-17 11:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  74. 2026-08-17 00:13 UTCEG score recompute
  75. 2026-08-17 00:13 UTCVendor advisory

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-13698?
CVE-2026-13698 is a high vulnerability published on July 6, 2026. A memory leak in OpenVPN version 2.5.0 through 2.5.11, 2.6.0 through 2.6.20 and 2.7_alpha1 through 2.7.4 allows remote attackers with a valid tls-crypt-v2 client key to potentially cause a denial of service
When was CVE-2026-13698 disclosed?
CVE-2026-13698 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on July 6, 2026, with the most recent update on July 9, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-13698 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-13698 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 75.5% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-13698?
CVE-2026-13698 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-13698?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-13698, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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