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CRITICALCVSS 9.1

CVE-2020-7043

CVE-2020-7043 updated by NVD

Modified
2026-08-25
Sources
nvd

Summary

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.

References

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