CVE-2018-10900
56Vexday Risk Score
Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.
ssvc Attendcvss 8.8epss 5.1%
from disclosure to weapon36 days
Published on NVDJul 26
1st PoC+36d
metasploitJul 26
exploitation probability
5.1%top 8% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
2 public exploit(s)
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.
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
[UNKNOWN] · networkmanager-vpncpublic PoCs found — 2✓ VexDay Proof
exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/45313cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/45313/unverified⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1101147https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10900https://download.gnome.org/sources/NetworkManager-vpnc/1.2/NetworkManager-vpnc-1.2.6.newshttps://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/NetworkManager-vpnc/commit/07ac18a32b4https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00048.htmlhttps://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/NM-VPNC-Priveschttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201808-03https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4253https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45313/