CVE-2021-3547 (GCVE-0-2021-3547)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-07-12 10:35 – Updated: 2024-08-03 17:01
VLAI
Summary
OpenVPN 3 Core Library version 3.6 and 3.6.1 allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to bypass the certificate authentication by issuing an unrelated server certificate using the same hostname found in the verify-x509-name option in a client configuration.
Severity
7.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-305 - Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a OpenVPN 3 Core Library Affected: 3.6 and 3.6.1
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