CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-7042

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
MEDIUM

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).

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