ubuntu-cve-2020-7041
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2020-02-27 18:15
Modified
2025-10-24 04:48
Summary
Details

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.

Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
N/A (UNKNOWN)
low
References
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "openfortivpn",
            "binary_version": "1.6.0-1build1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:18.04:LTS",
        "name": "openfortivpn",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/openfortivpn@1.6.0-1build1?arch=source\u0026distro=bionic"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "1.6.0-1",
        "1.6.0-1build1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2020-7041",
  "modified": "2025-10-24T04:48:18Z",
  "published": "2020-02-27T18:15:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-7041"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn/issues/536"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn/commit/60660e00b80bad0fadcf39aee86f6f8756c94f91"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn/commit/cd9368c6a1b4ef91d77bb3fdbe2e5bc34aa6f4c4"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-7041"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "low",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2020-7041"
  ]
}



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