Description
OpenVPN 3 Core Library version 3.6 and 3.6.1 allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to bypass the certificate authentication by issuing an unrelated server certificate using the same hostname found in the verify-x509-name option in a client configuration.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Attack Vector
- network
- Complexity
- high
- Privileges
- none
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- high
- Integrity
- high
- Availability
- none
- Weaknesses
- CWE-305CWE-295
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- OPENVPN
- Published
- 7/12/2021
- Last Modified
- 11/21/2024
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
openvpn : openvpnopenvpn : openvpn
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