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CVE-2018-10900

Description

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.

Risk Information

Base Score
7.8
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
14.681

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
network-manager-vpnc security update(DSA-4253-1) network-manager-vpnc_1.2.4-4+deb9u1_i386.debLinux
network-manager-vpnc security update(DSA-4253-1) network-manager-vpnc_1.2.4-4+deb9u1_amd64.debLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2297-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) NetworkManager-vpnc-1.0.8-8.4.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2297-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) NetworkManager-vpnc-debuginfo-1.0.8-8.4.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2297-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) NetworkManager-vpnc-debugsource-1.0.8-8.4.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2297-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) NetworkManager-vpnc-gnome-1.0.8-8.4.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2297-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) NetworkManager-vpnc-gnome-debuginfo-1.0.8-8.4.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2297-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) NetworkManager-vpnc-lang-1.0.8-8.4.2.noarch.rpmLinux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234