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CVE-2020-7043

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.1 EPSS 2.46% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2020-02-27 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2020-7043
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.1
EPSS
2.46%
OpenSSL

Original NVD 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.

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