CVE-2020-7043Improper Certificate Validation in Project Openfortivpn

Severity
9.1CRITICALNVD
EPSS
0.5%
top 35.51%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedFeb 27
Latest updateMay 24

Description

An issue was discovered in openfortivpn 1.11.0 when used with OpenSSL before 1.0.2. tunnel.c mishandles certificate validation because hostname comparisons do not consider '\0' characters, as demonstrated by a good.example.com\x00evil.example.com attack.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.2

Affected Packages4 packages

Also affects: Fedora 30, 31, 32

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-4pqj-5gg5-44jh: An issue was discovered in openfortivpn 12022-05-24
CVEList
CVE-2020-7043: An issue was discovered in openfortivpn 12020-02-27
OSV
CVE-2020-7043: An issue was discovered in openfortivpn 12020-02-27

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2020-7043: openfortivpn - An issue was discovered in openfortivpn 1.11.0 when used with OpenSSL before 1.0...2020

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-7043 openfortivpn: mishandling of certificate validation2020-05-05
CVE-2020-7043 — Improper Certificate Validation | cvebase