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    "vulnerability_id": "VCID-pspa-n4yc-j7hr",
    "summary": "The interactive service in OpenVPN 2.6.9 and earlier allows an attacker to send data causing a stack overflow which can be used to execute arbitrary code with more privileges.",
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            "reference_url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml",
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