CVE-2021-3547

NameCVE-2021-3547
DescriptionOpenVPN 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
openvpn3-client (PTS)trixie, sid24+dfsg-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
openvpn3-clientsource(unstable)(not affected)

Notes

- openvpn3-client <not-affected> (Fixed before initial upload to the archive)
https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2021-3547
https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn3/commit/febf01ef68b84f1579684224c80149138b6d2dcc (release/3.6.2)
https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn3/commit/11f964076d1c8c394f679b00a0242424a98b88d8 (release/3.6.2)

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