CVE-2020-11810

Summary

CVECVE-2020-11810
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-04-27 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:15:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in OpenVPN 2.4.x before 2.4.9. An attacker can inject a data channel v2 (P_DATA_V2) packet using a victim's peer-id. Normally such packets are dropped, but if this packet arrives before the data channel crypto parameters have been initialized, the victim's connection will be dropped. This requires careful timing due to the small time window (usually within a few seconds) between the victim client connection starting and the server PUSH_REPLY response back to the client. This attack will only work if Negotiable Cipher Parameters (NCP) is in use.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-362

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 30 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 30 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Application Openvpn Openvpn All All All All
Application Openvpn Openvpn All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
#1272 (One client kills other client session via false client floating) – OpenVPN Community CONFIRM community.openvpn.net Exploit, Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: openvpn-2.4.9-1.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Fix illegal client float (CVE-2020-11810) · OpenVPN/openvpn@37bc691 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: openvpn-2.4.9-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Bug 1169925 – VUL-1: CVE-2020-11810: openvpn: race condition between allocating peer-id and initializing data channel key CONFIRM bugzilla.suse.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
CVE-2020-11810 MISC security-tracker.debian.org Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: openvpn-2.4.9-1.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 2992-1] openvpn security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[Openvpn-devel,v2] Fix illegal client float - Patchwork CONFIRM patchwork.openvpn.net Patch, Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: openvpn-2.4.9-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 174999 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for openvpn (SUSE-SU-2021:1577-1)
  • 179259 Debian Security Update for Open Virtual Private Network (OpenVPN) (DLA 2992-1)
  • 198352 Ubuntu Security Notification for OpenVPN vulnerabilities (USN-4933-1)
  • 500504 Alpine Linux Security Update for Open Virtual Private Network (OpenVPN)
  • 500572 Alpine Linux Security Update for Open Virtual Private Network (OpenVPN)
  • 500771 Alpine Linux Security Update for openvpn
  • 501171 Alpine Linux Security Update for openvpn
  • 504261 Alpine Linux Security Update for openvpn
  • 750210 OpenSUSE Security Update for openvpn (openSUSE-SU-2021:0734-1)
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