CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-7041

Improper Certificate Validation

Published: Feb 27, 2020 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
5.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW

An issue was discovered in openfortivpn 1.11.0 when used with OpenSSL 1.0.2 or later. tunnel.c mishandles certificate validation because an X509_check_host negative error code is interpreted as a successful return value.

Weakness

The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Openfortivpn Openfortivpn_project * 1.12.0 (excluding)
Openfortivpn Ubuntu bionic *
Openfortivpn Ubuntu eoan *
Openfortivpn Ubuntu trusty *
Openfortivpn Ubuntu upstream *

Potential Mitigations

References