Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-7041
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:37 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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