CVE-2025-8069 - AWS Client VPN Windows Client Local Privilege Escalation Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2025/07/23 8:30 AM PDT Description: AWS Client VPN is a managed client-based VPN service that enables secure access to AWS and on-premises resources. The AWS Client VPN client software runs on end-user devices, supporting Windows, macOS, and Linux and provides the ability for end users to establish a secure tunnel to the AWS Client VPN Service. We identified CVE-2025-8069, an issue in AWS Client VPN. During the AWS Client VPN client installation on Windows devices, the install process references the C:\usr\local\windows-x86_64-openssl-localbuild\ssl directory location to fetch the OpenSSL configuration file. As a result, a non-admin user could…