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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: 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 an X509_check_host negative error code is interpreted as a successful return value.

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31 Oct 2026, 12:37 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-7041

core-osv · Original source

Published 27 Feb 2020, 18:15 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2020-7041
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-7041",
  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-7041",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T14:05:20.642881819Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
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        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FF6HYIBREQGATRM5COF57MRQWKOKCWZ3/",
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        "https://github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn/issues/536",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 388561,
  "published_at": "2020-02-27T18:15:11.483+00:00"
}