Vulnerabilites related to gnome - network_manager_vpnc
CVE-2018-10900 (GCVE-0-2018-10900)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-07-26 15:00
Modified
2024-08-05 07:54
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
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
| ▼ | URL | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4253 | vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN | |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201808-03 | vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO | |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00048.html | mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST | |
| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45313/ | exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB | |
| https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/NM-VPNC-Privesc | x_refsource_MISC | |
| https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/NetworkManager-vpnc/commit/07ac18a32b4 | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1101147 | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| https://download.gnome.org/sources/NetworkManager-vpnc/1.2/NetworkManager-vpnc-1.2.6.news | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10900 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [UNKNOWN] | networkmanager-vpnc |
Version: NetworkManager-vpnc 1.2.6 |
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Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2018-07-26 15:29
Modified
2024-11-21 03:42
Severity ?
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| gnome | network_manager_vpnc | * | |
| debian | debian_linux | 8.0 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 9.0 |
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