
In an era where cyber threats grow increasingly complex, the reliability and security of technologies like OpenVPN remain paramount. A recent vulnerability identified in OpenVPN’s data channel offload driver for Windows has prompted a pivotal response from the OpenVPN project team. The flaw (CVE-2025-50054) impacts version 1.3.0 and earlier of the ovpn-dco-win driver, alongside OpenVPN versions up to 2.5.8. If