Critical severity9.1NVD Advisory· Published Feb 27, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-7043
CVE-2020-7043
Description
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.
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Affected products
6- openfortivpn/openfortivpndescription
- Range: <1.11.0
- Range: <1.0.2
- osv-coords3 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/openfortivpn&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/openfortivpn&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/openfortivpn&distro=SUSE%20Package%20Hub%2015%20SP1
< 1.12.0-lp151.2.5.1+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: < 1.12.0-lp151.2.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.17.1-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.12.0-bp151.3.3.1
Patches
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References
8- github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn/commit/6328a070ddaab16faaf008cb9a8a62439c30f2a8nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn/commit/cd9368c6a1b4ef91d77bb3fdbe2e5bc34aa6f4c4nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00009.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00011.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn/issues/536nvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CKNKSGBVYGRRVRLFEFBEKUEJYJR5LWOF/nvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FF6HYIBREQGATRM5COF57MRQWKOKCWZ3/nvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SRVVNXCNTNMPCIAZIVR4FAGYCSU53FNA/nvd
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