CVE-2020-14342

Description

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.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202009-16

https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2020-September/135747.html

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JBNFSTJOQWVPFZAUJNNMAPY45PW5RTTE/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DUMRICFXJVCBBOSKZSKT3HFVQM6VPJU3/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14342

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00109.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3