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CVE-2018-10900

CVE-2018-10900

CVSS 8.8 HIGHEPSS 5.1%CWE-78
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-vpnc
public PoCs found — 2
cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/45313/unverifiedexploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/45313unverified
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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/