OpenVPN 3 Core library 3.6 and 3.6.1 possible certificate authentication bypass [CVE-2021-3547]
CVE number – CVE-2021-3547
OpenVPN 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.
This issue is resolved in OpenVPN 3 Core library 3.6.2
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