CVE-2020-7043

Critical

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.

SeverityCritical
CVSS9.1
Exploit probability—
ProductOpenfortivpn
PublishedFeb 27, 2020
First seenFeb 27, 2020

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
openfortivpn_project openfortivpnv < 1.12.01.12.0
fedoraproject fedora30, 31, 32—
opensuse backports_sle15.0—
opensuse leap15.1—

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