CVE-2020-12823
OpenConnect 8.09 has a buffer overflow, causing a denial of service (application crash) or possibly unspecified other impact, via crafted certificate data to get_cert_name in gnutls.c.
02 Description
OpenConnect 8.09 has a buffer overflow, causing a denial of service (application crash) or possibly unspecified other impact, via crafted certificate data to get_cert_name in gnutls.c.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 4.74% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 91.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-05-12 17:07Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 12:04Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-05-12
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 2e6164c7c4d8ec2ea1f22a11bd2818be51a2b4a4cbcd74cbaca1af71906e2361
05 Affected products
06 References
- gitlab.comhttps://gitlab.com/openconnect/openconnect/-/merge_requests/108
- bugs.gentoo.orghttps://bugs.gentoo.org/721570
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20200516 [SECURITY] [DLA 2212-1] openconnect security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00015.html
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2020-143735a624https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AYSXLXAPXD2T73T6JMHI5G2WP7KHAGMN/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2020-2af15c566ehttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BEVTIH5UFX35CC7MVSYBGRM3D66ACFD5/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2020-bc22f06aa3https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/25MFX4AZE7RDCUWOL4ZOE73YBOPUMQDX/
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-202006-15https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-15
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:0997http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00039.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:1027http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00056.html
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- openconnect Fixed in 1:8.10-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- openconnect Fixed in 8.10-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- openconnect Fixed in 8.10-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- openconnect Fixed in 8.10-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- openconnect No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- openconnect No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- openconnect No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.