CVE-2020-7043 (GCVE-0-2020-7043)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-02-27 17:30 – Updated: 2024-08-04 09:18
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
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