CVE-2018-10900: OS Command Injection
First published: Sun Jul 22 2018(Updated: )
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.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Gnome Network Manager Vpnc | <1.2.6 | |
| Debian Debian Linux | =8.0 | |
| Debian Debian Linux | =9.0 | |
| debian/network-manager-vpnc | 1.2.6-2 1.2.6-3 1.2.8-4 1.2.8-5 1.2.8-6 |
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Reference Links
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-10900
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-10900
- https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/NM-VPNC-Privesc
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=904255
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1101147
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10900
- https://download.gnome.org/sources/NetworkManager-vpnc/1.2/NetworkManager-vpnc-1.2.6.news
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/NetworkManager-vpnc/commit/07ac18a32b4
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00048.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201808-03
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4253
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45313/
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/07/20/3
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/NetworkManager-vpnc/commit/07ac18a32b4e361a27ef48ac757d36cbb46e8e12
- collector/debian-bugs
- alias/CVE-2018-10900
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- collector/security-tracker-debian
- agent/severity
- agent/author
- agent/references
- agent/tags
- agent/description
- agent/weakness
- agent/type
- agent/event
- agent/remedy
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/first-publish-date
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- vendor/gnome
- canonical/gnome network manager vpnc
- vendor/debian
- canonical/debian debian linux
- version/debian debian linux/8.0
- version/debian debian linux/9.0
- package-manager/debian