CVE-2026-31893CWE-61

Tunnelblick arbitrary file read via symlink following in tunnelblickd

Medium · published May 5, 2026

CVSS v4.0
6.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
6.8 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00187 · 7.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-61 · UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
Published
2026-05-05T18:55Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 MAY 18:55Z
    Tunnelblick arbitrary file read via symlink following in tunnelblickd
    cvelistv5