CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-14342

7.0 HIGH Published 2020-09-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-09-09
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-77, CWE-78

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.

Affected configurations

• samba cifs-utils (>= 5.6 <= 6.10) • fedoraproject fedora 32 • fedoraproject fedora 33 • opensuse leap 15.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command weakness
  • CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command weakness

References