CVE-2020-14342 describes a command injection vulnerability in cifs-utils' mount.cifs, affecting various Fedora, openSUSE, and Samba cifs-utils versions. An attacker with specific permissions, such as sudo, could exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary commands and escalate privileges. With a CVSS score of 7.0 (HIGH), this vulnerability has a local attack vector and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires high attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 5.6, <= 6.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:samba:cifs-utils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
32CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
33CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
15.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
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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.
Sep 8, 2020cifs-utils: shell command injection in mount.cifs
Sep 3, 2020