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CVE-2020-14342

Date: September 9, 2020

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (14)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14342
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JBNFSTJOQWVPFZAUJNNMAPY45PW5RTTE/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00109.html
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2020-14342
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14342
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-14342
https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2020-September/135747.html
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-14342
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-14342
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202009-16
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DUMRICFXJVCBBOSKZSKT3HFVQM6VPJU3/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JBNFSTJOQWVPFZAUJNNMAPY45PW5RTTE/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DUMRICFXJVCBBOSKZSKT3HFVQM6VPJU3/
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2020-14342

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')

CWE-77

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

CWE-78

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): LOW
Integrity (I): LOW
Availability (A): NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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