CVE-2020-7043 Security feature bypass in n/a

Critical 9.1 Published Updated

An attacker can bypass certificate validation in openfortivpn by exploiting hostname comparison flaws, allowing man-in-the-middle attacks.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2020-7043?

CVE-2020-7043 is a critical vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 27 Feb 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-295

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-7043?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Openfortivpn Project Openfortivpn, Opensuse Backports Sle, Opensuse Leap.

How do I fix CVE-2020-7043?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2020-7043 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-7043 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Fedoraproject Fedora vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-7043, GHSA-4pqj-5gg5-44jh, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-7043.

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