medium4.4
CVE-2020-14342
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.
Impact
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 products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Samba | Cifs-Utils | from 5.6 through 6.10 |
| Fedoraproject | Fedora | Versions 32, 33 |
| Opensuse | Leap | Version 15.1 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00109.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14342
- https://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.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202009-16
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00109.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14342
- https://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.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202009-16