According to Perfect Privacy, this flaw affects all VPN protocols including OpenVPN and IPSec a and operating systems.
The critical flaw uncovered byPerfect Privacyuses a simple port forwarding trick.
They have given a example of a potential hacker who can activate port forwarding for the default BitTorrent port.
The potential hacker can also uses the same trick in case of VPN users using regular Internet.
Many of the VPN service providers have fixed the issue before Perfect Privacy made their findings public.
PIAinforms TorrentFreak that their fix was relatively simple and was implemented swiftly after they were notified.
source: www.techworm.net
