CVE-2020-15078

Summary

CVECVE-2020-15078
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-04-26 14:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:17:00 UTC
DescriptionOpenVPN 2.5.1 and earlier versions allows a remote attackers to bypass authentication and access control channel data on servers configured with deferred authentication, which can be used to potentially trigger further information leaks.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-306

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 21.04 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Application Openvpn Openvpn All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Just a moment... MISC community.openvpn.net
OpenVPN: Authentication bypass (GLSA 202105-25) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: openvpn-2.4.11-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Just a moment... MISC community.openvpn.net
[SECURITY] [DLA 2992-1] openvpn security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: openvpn-2.4.11-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: openvpn-2.4.11-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: openvpn-2.5.2-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
USN-4933-1: OpenVPN vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: openvpn-2.4.11-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: openvpn-2.5.2-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 174998 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for openvpn (SUSE-SU-2021:1576-1)
  • 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)
  • 281284 Fedora Security Update for openvpn (FEDORA-2021-b805c26afa)
  • 281285 Fedora Security Update for openvpn (FEDORA-2021-242ef81244)
  • 281286 Fedora Security Update for openvpn (FEDORA-2021-d6b9d8497b)
  • 352804 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for Open Virtual Private Network (OpenVPN): ALAS-2021-1531
  • 375518 OpenVpn 2.5.1 and earlier Authentication Bypass (excluding 2.4.11)
  • 500501 Alpine Linux Security Update for Open Virtual Private Network (OpenVPN)
  • 500569 Alpine Linux Security Update for Open Virtual Private Network (OpenVPN)
  • 500768 Alpine Linux Security Update for openvpn
  • 501168 Alpine Linux Security Update for openvpn
  • 501466 Alpine Linux Security Update for Open Virtual Private Network (OpenVPN)
  • 504262 Alpine Linux Security Update for openvpn
  • 690161 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for Open Virtual Private Network (OpenVPN) (efb965be-a2c0-11eb-8956-1951a8617e30)
  • 710091 Gentoo Linux OpenVirtual Private Network Authentication bypass vulnerability (GLSA 202105-25)
  • 750210 OpenSUSE Security Update for openvpn (openSUSE-SU-2021:0734-1)
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