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CVE-2020-7043 Detail

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.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00009.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00011.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn/commit/6328a070ddaab16faaf008cb9a8a62439c30f2a8 CVE, MITRE Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn/commit/cd9368c6a1b4ef91d77bb3fdbe2e5bc34aa6f4c4 CVE, MITRE Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn/issues/536 CVE, MITRE Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CKNKSGBVYGRRVRLFEFBEKUEJYJR5LWOF/ CVE, MITRE
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FF6HYIBREQGATRM5COF57MRQWKOKCWZ3/ CVE, MITRE
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SRVVNXCNTNMPCIAZIVR4FAGYCSU53FNA/ CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2020-7043
NVD Published Date:
02/27/2020
NVD Last Modified:
11/21/2024
Source:
MITRE