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Status published
Medium
CVE-2020-7042
An issue was discovered in openfortivpn 1.11.0 when used with...
Vulnerability Description
An issue was discovered in openfortivpn 1.11.0 when used with OpenSSL 1.0.2 or later. tunnel.c mishandles certificate validation because the hostname check operates on uninitialized memory. The outcome is that a valid certificate is never accepted (only a malformed certificate may be accepted).
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn/issues/536
- https://github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn/commit/cd9368c6a1b4ef91d77bb3fdbe2e5bc34aa6f4c4
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00009.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00011.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SRVVNXCNTNMPCIAZIVR4FAGYCSU53FNA/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FF6HYIBREQGATRM5COF57MRQWKOKCWZ3/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CKNKSGBVYGRRVRLFEFBEKUEJYJR5LWOF/
- https://github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn/commit/9eee997d599a89492281fc7ffdd79d88cd61afc3
Affected Vendor
openfortivpn project
View all reports →Affected Software
openfortivpn, fedora, backports sle, leap
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 30, 31, 32, 15.0, 15.1
Timeline
Official Publish:
February 27th, 2020
Last Modified:
August 4th, 2024
Added to House:
July 21st, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.