CVE-2018-10900
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-07-26 15:00
Modified
2024-08-05 07:54
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Network Manager VPNC plugin (aka networkmanager-vpnc) before version 1.2.6 is vulnerable to a privilege escalation attack. A new line character can be used to inject a Password helper parameter into the configuration data passed to VPNC, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1101147Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10900Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://download.gnome.org/sources/NetworkManager-vpnc/1.2/NetworkManager-vpnc-1.2.6.newsThird Party Advisory, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/NetworkManager-vpnc/commit/07ac18a32b4Patch, Third Party Advisory, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00048.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/NM-VPNC-PrivescExploit, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201808-03Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4253Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45313/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Impacted products
[UNKNOWN]networkmanager-vpnc
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