Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-12105 - Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
OpenConnect through 8.08 mishandles negative return values from X509_check_ function calls, which might assist attackers in performing man-in-the-middle attacks.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2020-1337-1.NASL description This update for openconnect fixes the following issues : Security issue fixed : CVE-2020-12105: Fixed the improper handling of negative return values from X509_check_ function calls that might have allowed MITM attacks (bsc#1170452). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-05-31 modified 2020-05-22 plugin id 136796 published 2020-05-22 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/136796 title SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : openconnect (SUSE-SU-2020:1337-1) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from SUSE update advisory SUSE-SU-2020:1337-1. # The text itself is copyright (C) SUSE. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(136796); script_version("1.2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/05/26"); script_cve_id("CVE-2020-12105"); script_name(english:"SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : openconnect (SUSE-SU-2020:1337-1)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "This update for openconnect fixes the following issues : Security issue fixed : CVE-2020-12105: Fixed the improper handling of negative return values from X509_check_ function calls that might have allowed MITM attacks (bsc#1170452). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1170452" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12105/" ); # https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2020/suse-su-20201337-1/ script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?12a08222" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value: "To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product : SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15-SP1 : zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-WE-15-SP1-2020-1337=1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Open Buildservice Development Tools 15-SP1 : zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-OBS-15-SP1-2020-1337=1" ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openconnect-debuginfo"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openconnect-debugsource"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openconnect-doc"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/04/23"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/05/19"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/05/22"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release"); if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE"); os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^(SLE(S|D)\d+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "SUSE"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! preg(pattern:"^(SLED15|SLES15)$", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE SLED15 / SLES15", "SUSE " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if (cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "x86_64" >!< cpu && "s390x" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "SUSE " + os_ver, cpu); sp = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/patchlevel"); if (isnull(sp)) sp = "0"; if (os_ver == "SLES15" && (! preg(pattern:"^(1)$", string:sp))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLES15 SP1", os_ver + " SP" + sp); if (os_ver == "SLED15" && (! preg(pattern:"^(1)$", string:sp))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLED15 SP1", os_ver + " SP" + sp); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES15", sp:"1", reference:"openconnect-debuginfo-7.08-6.6.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES15", sp:"1", reference:"openconnect-debugsource-7.08-6.6.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES15", sp:"1", reference:"openconnect-doc-7.08-6.6.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLED15", sp:"1", reference:"openconnect-debuginfo-7.08-6.6.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLED15", sp:"1", reference:"openconnect-debugsource-7.08-6.6.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLED15", sp:"1", reference:"openconnect-doc-7.08-6.6.1")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "openconnect"); }
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2020-694.NASL description This update for openconnect fixes the following issues : Security issue fixed : - CVE-2020-12105: Fixed the improper handling of negative return values from X509_check_ function calls that might have allowed MITM attacks (bsc#1170452). This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project. last seen 2020-05-31 modified 2020-05-26 plugin id 136883 published 2020-05-26 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/136883 title openSUSE Security Update : openconnect (openSUSE-2020-694)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00039.html
- https://gitlab.com/openconnect/openconnect/-/merge_requests/96
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-15
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00039.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-15
- https://gitlab.com/openconnect/openconnect/-/merge_requests/96