Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-7041 - Improper Certificate Validation vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
LOW Availability impact
NONE 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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Creating a Rogue Certificate Authority Certificate An attacker exploits a weakness in the MD5 hash algorithm (weak collision resistance) to generate a certificate signing request (CSR) that contains collision blocks in the "to be signed" part. The attacker specially crafts two different, but valid X.509 certificates that when hashed with the MD5 algorithm would yield the same value. The attacker then sends the CSR for one of the certificates to the Certification Authority which uses the MD5 hashing algorithm. That request is completely valid and the Certificate Authority issues an X.509 certificate to the attacker which is signed with its private key. An attacker then takes that signed blob and inserts it into another X.509 certificate that the attacker generated. Due to the MD5 collision, both certificates, though different, hash to the same value and so the signed blob works just as well in the second certificate. The net effect is that the attackers' second X.509 certificate, which the Certification Authority has never seen, is now signed and validated by that Certification Authority. To make the attack more interesting, the second certificate could be not just a regular certificate, but rather itself a signing certificate. Thus the attacker is able to start their own Certification Authority that is anchored in its root of trust in the legitimate Certification Authority that has signed the attackers' first X.509 certificate. If the original Certificate Authority was accepted by default by browsers, so will now the Certificate Authority set up by the attacker and of course any certificates that it signs. So the attacker is now able to generate any SSL certificates to impersonate any web server, and the user's browser will not issue any warning to the victim. This can be used to compromise HTTPS communications and other types of systems where PKI and X.509 certificates may be used (e.g., VPN, IPSec) .
Nessus
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2020-301.NASL description This update for openfortivpn to version 1.12.0 fixes the following issues : - CVE-2020-7043: Fixed a TLS Certificate CommonName NULL Byte Vulnerability (boo#1165301). - CVE-2020-7042: Fixed use of uninitialized memory in X509_check_host (boo#1165300). - CVE-2020-7041: Fixed incorrect use of X509_check_host (boo#1165299). last seen 2020-03-18 modified 2020-03-06 plugin id 134282 published 2020-03-06 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/134282 title openSUSE Security Update : openfortivpn (openSUSE-2020-301) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2020-301. # # The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(134282); script_version("1.2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/10"); script_cve_id("CVE-2020-7041", "CVE-2020-7042", "CVE-2020-7043"); script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : openfortivpn (openSUSE-2020-301)"); script_summary(english:"Check for the openSUSE-2020-301 patch"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "This update for openfortivpn to version 1.12.0 fixes the following issues : - CVE-2020-7043: Fixed a TLS Certificate CommonName NULL Byte Vulnerability (boo#1165301). - CVE-2020-7042: Fixed use of uninitialized memory in X509_check_host (boo#1165300). - CVE-2020-7041: Fixed incorrect use of X509_check_host (boo#1165299)." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1165299" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1165300" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1165301" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected openfortivpn packages." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/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:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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:opensuse:openfortivpn"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openfortivpn-debuginfo"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openfortivpn-debugsource"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.1"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/02/27"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/03/04"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/03/06"); 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/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list", "Host/cpu"); 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, "openSUSE"); if (release !~ "^(SUSE15\.1)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "15.1", release); if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if (ourarch !~ "^(x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "x86_64", ourarch); flag = 0; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE15.1", reference:"openfortivpn-1.12.0-lp151.2.5.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE15.1", reference:"openfortivpn-debuginfo-1.12.0-lp151.2.5.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE15.1", reference:"openfortivpn-debugsource-1.12.0-lp151.2.5.1") ) 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, "openfortivpn / openfortivpn-debuginfo / openfortivpn-debugsource"); }
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References
- https://github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn/commit/cd9368c6a1b4ef91d77bb3fdbe2e5bc34aa6f4c4
- https://github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn/issues/536
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00009.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00011.html
- https://github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn/commit/60660e00b80bad0fadcf39aee86f6f8756c94f91
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SRVVNXCNTNMPCIAZIVR4FAGYCSU53FNA/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FF6HYIBREQGATRM5COF57MRQWKOKCWZ3/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CKNKSGBVYGRRVRLFEFBEKUEJYJR5LWOF/