CVE-2020-1971

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1971
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-1971.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-1971
Aliases
Related
Published
2020-12-08T16:15:11Z
Modified
2024-09-18T03:10:42.737836Z
Severity
  • 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The X.509 GeneralName type is a generic type for representing different types of names. One of those name types is known as EDIPartyName. OpenSSL provides a function GENERALNAMEcmp which compares different instances of a GENERALNAME to see if they are equal or not. This function behaves incorrectly when both GENERALNAMEs contain an EDIPARTYNAME. A NULL pointer dereference and a crash may occur leading to a possible denial of service attack. OpenSSL itself uses the GENERALNAMEcmp function for two purposes: 1) Comparing CRL distribution point names between an available CRL and a CRL distribution point embedded in an X509 certificate 2) When verifying that a timestamp response token signer matches the timestamp authority name (exposed via the API functions TSRESPverifyresponse and TSRESPverifytoken) If an attacker can control both items being compared then that attacker could trigger a crash. For example if the attacker can trick a client or server into checking a malicious certificate against a malicious CRL then this may occur. Note that some applications automatically download CRLs based on a URL embedded in a certificate. This checking happens prior to the signatures on the certificate and CRL being verified. OpenSSL's sserver, sclient and verify tools have support for the "-crl_download" option which implements automatic CRL downloading and this attack has been demonstrated to work against those tools. Note that an unrelated bug means that affected versions of OpenSSL cannot parse or construct correct encodings of EDIPARTYNAME. However it is possible to construct a malformed EDIPARTYNAME that OpenSSL's parser will accept and hence trigger this attack. All OpenSSL 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 versions are affected by this issue. Other OpenSSL releases are out of support and have not been checked. Fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.1i (Affected 1.1.1-1.1.1h). Fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.2x (Affected 1.0.2-1.0.2w).

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.10 / openssl

Package

Name
openssl
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/openssl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.1.1i-r0

Affected versions

1.*

1.1.1-r1
1.1.1-r2
1.1.1-r3
1.1.1-r4
1.1.1-r5
1.1.1a-r0
1.1.1a-r1
1.1.1b-r0
1.1.1b-r1
1.1.1c-r0
1.1.1d-r0
1.1.1d-r1
1.1.1d-r2
1.1.1g-r0

Alpine:v3.11 / openssl

Package

Name
openssl
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/openssl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.1.1i-r0

Affected versions

1.*

1.1.1-r1
1.1.1-r2
1.1.1-r3
1.1.1-r4
1.1.1-r5
1.1.1a-r0
1.1.1a-r1
1.1.1b-r0
1.1.1b-r1
1.1.1c-r0
1.1.1c-r1
1.1.1d-r1
1.1.1d-r2
1.1.1d-r3
1.1.1g-r0

Alpine:v3.12 / openssl

Package

Name
openssl
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/openssl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.1.1i-r0

Affected versions

1.*

1.1.1-r1
1.1.1-r2
1.1.1-r3
1.1.1-r4
1.1.1-r5
1.1.1a-r0
1.1.1a-r1
1.1.1b-r0
1.1.1b-r1
1.1.1c-r0
1.1.1c-r1
1.1.1d-r1
1.1.1d-r2
1.1.1d-r3
1.1.1d-r4
1.1.1d-r5
1.1.1e-r0
1.1.1f-r0
1.1.1g-r0
1.1.1h-r0

Alpine:v3.13 / libressl

Package

Name
libressl
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libressl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.1.5-r0

Affected versions

2.*

2.1.4-r0
2.2.0-r0
2.2.1-r0
2.2.2-r0
2.2.3-r0
2.2.4-r0
2.2.5-r0
2.2.6-r0
2.2.6-r1
2.4.2-r0
2.4.3-r0
2.4.3-r2
2.4.4-r0
2.4.5-r0
2.5.3-r0
2.5.3-r1
2.5.4-r0
2.5.5-r0
2.5.5-r1
2.5.5-r2
2.5.5-r3
2.5.5-r4
2.6.3-r0
2.6.4-r0
2.7.2-r0
2.7.3-r0
2.7.3-r1
2.7.4-r0
2.7.4-r1
2.7.4-r2
2.7.5-r0
2.7.5-r1
2.9.2-r0
2.9.2-r1

3.*

3.0.2-r0
3.1.2-r0
3.1.3-r0
3.1.4-r0

Alpine:v3.13 / openssl

Package

Name
openssl
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/openssl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.1.1i-r0

Affected versions

1.*

1.1.1-r1
1.1.1-r2
1.1.1-r3
1.1.1-r4
1.1.1-r5
1.1.1a-r0
1.1.1a-r1
1.1.1b-r0
1.1.1b-r1
1.1.1c-r0
1.1.1c-r1
1.1.1d-r1
1.1.1d-r2
1.1.1d-r3
1.1.1d-r4
1.1.1d-r5
1.1.1e-r0
1.1.1f-r0
1.1.1g-r0
1.1.1h-r0

Alpine:v3.14 / openssl

Package

Name
openssl
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/openssl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.1.1i-r0

Affected versions

1.*

1.1.1-r1
1.1.1-r2
1.1.1-r3
1.1.1-r4
1.1.1-r5
1.1.1a-r0
1.1.1a-r1
1.1.1b-r0
1.1.1b-r1
1.1.1c-r0
1.1.1c-r1
1.1.1d-r1
1.1.1d-r2
1.1.1d-r3
1.1.1d-r4
1.1.1d-r5
1.1.1e-r0
1.1.1f-r0
1.1.1g-r0
1.1.1h-r0

Alpine:v3.15 / openssl

Package

Name
openssl
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/openssl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.1.1i-r0

Alpine:v3.15 / openssl3

Package

Name
openssl3
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/openssl3?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.1.1i-r0

Affected versions

1.*

1.1.1-r0
1.1.1-r1
1.1.1-r2
1.1.1-r3
1.1.1-r4
1.1.1-r5
1.1.1a-r0
1.1.1a-r1
1.1.1b-r0
1.1.1b-r1
1.1.1c-r0
1.1.1c-r1
1.1.1d-r1
1.1.1d-r2
1.1.1d-r3
1.1.1d-r4
1.1.1d-r5
1.1.1e-r0
1.1.1f-r0
1.1.1g-r0
1.1.1h-r0

Alpine:v3.16 / openssl

Package

Name
openssl
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/openssl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.1.1i-r0

Alpine:v3.16 / openssl3

Package

Name
openssl3
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/openssl3?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.1.1i-r0

Affected versions

1.*

1.1.1-r0
1.1.1-r1
1.1.1-r2
1.1.1-r3
1.1.1-r4
1.1.1-r5
1.1.1a-r0
1.1.1a-r1
1.1.1b-r0
1.1.1b-r1
1.1.1c-r0
1.1.1c-r1
1.1.1d-r1
1.1.1d-r2
1.1.1d-r3
1.1.1d-r4
1.1.1d-r5
1.1.1e-r0
1.1.1f-r0
1.1.1g-r0
1.1.1h-r0

Alpine:v3.17 / openssl

Package

Name
openssl
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/openssl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.1.1i-r0

Affected versions

1.*

1.1.1-r0
1.1.1-r1
1.1.1-r2
1.1.1-r3
1.1.1-r4
1.1.1-r5
1.1.1a-r0
1.1.1a-r1
1.1.1b-r0
1.1.1b-r1
1.1.1c-r0
1.1.1c-r1
1.1.1d-r1
1.1.1d-r2
1.1.1d-r3
1.1.1d-r4
1.1.1d-r5
1.1.1e-r0
1.1.1f-r0
1.1.1g-r0
1.1.1h-r0

Alpine:v3.18 / openssl

Package

Name
openssl
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/openssl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.1.1i-r0

Affected versions

1.*

1.1.1-r0
1.1.1-r1
1.1.1-r2
1.1.1-r3
1.1.1-r4
1.1.1-r5
1.1.1a-r0
1.1.1a-r1
1.1.1b-r0
1.1.1b-r1
1.1.1c-r0
1.1.1c-r1
1.1.1d-r1
1.1.1d-r2
1.1.1d-r3
1.1.1d-r4
1.1.1d-r5
1.1.1e-r0
1.1.1f-r0
1.1.1g-r0
1.1.1h-r0

Alpine:v3.19 / openssl

Package

Name
openssl
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/openssl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.1.1i-r0

Affected versions

1.*

1.1.1-r0
1.1.1-r1
1.1.1-r2
1.1.1-r3
1.1.1-r4
1.1.1-r5
1.1.1a-r0
1.1.1a-r1
1.1.1b-r0
1.1.1b-r1
1.1.1c-r0
1.1.1c-r1
1.1.1d-r1
1.1.1d-r2
1.1.1d-r3
1.1.1d-r4
1.1.1d-r5
1.1.1e-r0
1.1.1f-r0
1.1.1g-r0
1.1.1h-r0

Alpine:v3.20 / openssl

Package

Name
openssl
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/openssl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.1.1i-r0

Affected versions

1.*

1.1.1-r0
1.1.1-r1
1.1.1-r2
1.1.1-r3
1.1.1-r4
1.1.1-r5
1.1.1a-r0
1.1.1a-r1
1.1.1b-r0
1.1.1b-r1
1.1.1c-r0
1.1.1c-r1
1.1.1d-r1
1.1.1d-r2
1.1.1d-r3
1.1.1d-r4
1.1.1d-r5
1.1.1e-r0
1.1.1f-r0
1.1.1g-r0
1.1.1h-r0

Alpine:v3.9 / openssl

Package

Name
openssl
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/openssl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.1.1i-r0

Affected versions

1.*

1.1.1-r1
1.1.1-r2
1.1.1-r3
1.1.1-r4
1.1.1-r5
1.1.1a-r0
1.1.1a-r1
1.1.1b-r0
1.1.1b-r1
1.1.1c-r0
1.1.1d-r0
1.1.1d-r1
1.1.1d-r2
1.1.1g-r0

Debian:11 / openssl

Package

Name
openssl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/openssl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.1.1i-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / openssl

Package

Name
openssl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/openssl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.1.1i-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / openssl

Package

Name
openssl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/openssl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.1.1i-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Git / github.com/nodejs/node

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/nodejs/node
Events

Affected versions

v15.*

v15.0.0
v15.0.1
v15.1.0
v15.2.0
v15.2.1
v15.3.0
v15.4.0