# CVE-2020-7041: An issue was discovered in openfortivpn 1.11.0 when used with OpenSSL 1.0.2 or later.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-02-27 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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.

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## References

- https://github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn/issues/536
- https://github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn/commit/cd9368c6a1b4ef91d77bb3fdbe2e5bc34aa6f4c4
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00009.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00011.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SRVVNXCNTNMPCIAZIVR4FAGYCSU53FNA/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FF6HYIBREQGATRM5COF57MRQWKOKCWZ3/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CKNKSGBVYGRRVRLFEFBEKUEJYJR5LWOF/
- https://github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn/commit/60660e00b80bad0fadcf39aee86f6f8756c94f91

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