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CVE-2020-7043

CVE-2020-7043 PUBLISHED

Reported by mitre · Published February 27, 2020

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.

Affected products

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Timeline

  • Feb 27, 2020 CVE Published
  • Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score (30 in total, the first dated here)
  • Aug 4, 2024 CVE Updated
  • Mar 10, 2026 Security Advisory (5 in total, the first dated here)
  • Aug 29, 2026 Coalition ESS Score

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vulnetix vdb vuln CVE-2020-7043
vulnetix vdb fixes CVE-2020-7043

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curl -s -H "Authorization: ApiKey ${VULNETIX_ORG_ID}:${VULNETIX_API_KEY}" \
  "https://api.vdb.vulnetix.com/v2/vuln/CVE-2020-7043/fixes/registry"

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