CVE-2020-14342
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 4.4epss 0.7%
exploitation probability
0.7%top 52% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Affected products
samba · cifs-utilsReferences
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00109.htmlhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14342https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DUMRICFXJVCBBOSKZSKT3HFVQM6VPJU3/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JBNFSTJOQWVPFZAUJNNMAPY45PW5RTTE/https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2020-September/135747.htmlhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202009-16