ghsa-6cmp-3578-qc4p
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-13 01:12
Modified
2022-05-13 01:12
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details

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.

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{
   affected: [],
   aliases: [
      "CVE-2018-10900",
   ],
   database_specific: {
      cwe_ids: [
         "CWE-78",
      ],
      github_reviewed: false,
      github_reviewed_at: null,
      nvd_published_at: "2018-07-26T15:29:00Z",
      severity: "HIGH",
   },
   details: "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.",
   id: "GHSA-6cmp-3578-qc4p",
   modified: "2022-05-13T01:12:25Z",
   published: "2022-05-13T01:12:25Z",
   references: [
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10900",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1101147",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10900",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://download.gnome.org/sources/NetworkManager-vpnc/1.2/NetworkManager-vpnc-1.2.6.news",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/NetworkManager-vpnc/commit/07ac18a32b4",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00048.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/NM-VPNC-Privesc",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201808-03",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4253",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45313",
      },
   ],
   schema_version: "1.4.0",
   severity: [
      {
         score: "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
         type: "CVSS_V3",
      },
   ],
}


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