cve-2018-10900
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-07-26 15:00
Modified
2024-08-05 07:54
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
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
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ▼ | [UNKNOWN] | networkmanager-vpnc |
Version: NetworkManager-vpnc 1.2.6 |
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