RHSA-2021:0618 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: stunnel security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · February 22, 2021
Updated · November 22, 2025
Topic
An update for stunnel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
Stunnel is a wrapper for network connections. It can be used to tunnel an unencrypted network connection over an encrypted connection (encrypted using SSL or TLS) or to provide an encrypted means of connecting to services that do not natively support encryption.
Security Fix(es):
- stunnel: client certificate not correctly verified when redirect and verifyChain options are used (CVE-2021-20230)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.