CVE-2020-7043

Published Feb 27, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 9.1 Critical EPSS 2.8% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-28177 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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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 9:18 AM
Reserved
Jan 14, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Feb 27, 2020, 6:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:24 AM