NetworkManager is a system network service that manages network devices and connections, attempting to keep active network connectivity when available. Its capabilities include managing Ethernet, wireless, mobile broadband (WWAN), and PPPoE devices, as well as providing VPN integration with a variety of different VPN services.Security Fix(es): networkmanagr: NetworkManager File Access (CVE-2025-9615) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.Additional Changes:For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Given a system running NetworkManager with DEBUG logs enabled and an interface eth1 configured with LLDP enabled, someone could inject a malformed LLDP packet and NetworkManager would crash leading to a DoS.
A flaw was found in NetworkManager in versions before 1.30.0. Setting match.path and activating a profile crashes NetworkManager. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
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.
Directory traversal vulnerability in the Ubuntu network-manager package for Ubuntu (vivid) before 0.9.10.0-4ubuntu15.1, Ubuntu 14.10 before 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu28.1, and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS before 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu7.1 allows local users to change the modem device configuration or read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the file name in a request to read modem device contexts (com.canonical.NMOfono.ReadImsiContexts).
GNOME NetworkManager allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (IPv6 traffic disruption) via a crafted MTU value in an IPv6 Router Advertisement (RA) message, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8215.
It was found that NetworkManager, a network devices and connections manager, did not properly enforce the PolicyKit 'authadmin' action element settings (did not require authentication by an administrative user), when the 'authadmin' element was specified in org.freedesktop.network-manager-settings.system.wifi.share.open (connection sharing via an open WiFi network) action. A local attacker could use this flaw to setup an unsecure (passwordless) Ad-Hoc wireless network.
Description of problem:
Password to unlock certificate is logged to /var/log/messages
May 29 19:46:42 localhost NetworkManager[4791]: destroyonesecret: destroying
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
NetworkManager-openvpn-0.8.999-1.fc15.x8664
Additional info:
I would love to have the option to type the password at connection time instead of it being stored, but adding the password to the system log is wrong