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CVE-2020-14342

Published: Sep 9, 2020

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

4.4

MEDIUM

Description

It was found that cifs-utils' mount.cifs was invoking a shell when requesting the Samba password, which could be used to inject arbitrary commands. An attacker able to invoke mount.cifs with special permission, such as via sudo rules, could use this flaw to escalate their privileges.

Vendor	Product	Versions
samba	cifs-utils	affected `6.11`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

References

https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2020-September/135747.html

x_refsource_MISC

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14342

x_refsource_CONFIRM

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_GENTOO

openSUSE-SU-2020:1579

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

FEDORA-2020-ea0b9caac3

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_FEDORA

FEDORA-2020-cfdd73f1b4

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_FEDORA

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