# [DRAFT] CVE-2018-7544: DISPUTED: Remote Information Disclosure and Denial Of Service
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Jose Antonio Pérez Piedra discovered a way to interfere with a running OpenVPN instance via the management interface, and reported this as a security issue to the OpenVPN developers. They disagreed with the assessment and classified as a (non-default) configuration problem. Jose disagreed with that and proceeded to get a CVE ID allocated ([CVE-2018-7544](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-7544)).
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Jose Antonio Pérez Piedra discovered a way to interfere with a running OpenVPN instance via the management interface, and reported this as a security issue to the OpenVPN developers. They disagreed with the assessment and classified as a (non-default) configuration problem. Jose disagreed with that and proceeded to get a CVE ID allocated ([CVE-2018-7544](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-7544)).
Since the existence of a CVE will create insecurity and confusion for OpenVPN users, this page tries to clarify what this is about, why it is not seen as a security issue and why no code changes will be made to disallow the configuration variant in question.
