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CVE-2020-7041
An issue was discovered in openfortivpn 1.11.0 when used with OpenSSL 1.0.2 or later. tunnel.c mishandles certificate validation because…
Medium5.3EPSS 1.7%
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- mitre
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 22% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (8)
- https://github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn/issues/536 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn/commit/cd9368c6a1b4ef91d77bb3fdbe2e5bc34aa6f4c4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2020:0301 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2020:0305 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-42eb8821db (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-c96ab3c813 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-dcdffcc368 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn/commit/60660e00b80bad0fadcf39aee86f6f8756c94f91 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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