# Exploit summary 

OpenVPN 2.3.0 and earlier running in UDP mode are subject to chosen ciphertext injection due to a non-constant-time HMAC comparison function. Plaintext recovery may be possible using a padding oracle attack on the CBC mode cipher implementation of the crypto library, optimistically at a rate of about one character per 3 hours. PolarSSL seems vulnerable to such an attack; the vulnerability of OpenSSL has not been verified or tested.

# Severity 

OpenVPN servers are typically configured to silently drop packets with the wrong HMAC. For this reason measuring the processing time of the packets is not trivial without a MITM position. In practice, the attack likely needs some target-specific information to be effective.

The severity of this vulnerability can be considered low. Only if OpenVPN is configured to use a null-cipher, arbitrary
plain-text can be injected which can completely open up this attack vector.

# Affected versions 

OpenVPN 2.3.0 and earlier are vulnerable. A fix ([commit f375aa67cc](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/commit/11d21349a4e7e38a025849479b36ace7c2eec2ee)) is included in OpenVPN 2.3.1 and later.  This issue has been assigned to CVE-2013-2061.