CVE-2020-11810

Description

An 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.

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-11810

https://patchwork.openvpn.net/patch/1079/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JII7RYYYRBPQNEGGVSOXCM7JUZ43T3VH/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FGHHV4YZANZW45KZTJJGVGPFMSXYRCKZ/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00002.html

https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/commit/37bc691e7d26ea4eb61a8a434ebd7a9ae76225ab

https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/ticket/1272

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1169925

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3