CVE-2018-12562

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-12562
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-06-19 05:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-08-10 18:05:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in the cantata-mounter D-Bus service in Cantata through 2.3.1. The wrapper script 'mount.cifs.wrapper' uses the shell to forward the arguments to the actual mount.cifs binary. The shell evaluates wildcards (such as in an injected string:/home/../tmp/* string).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Cantata Project Cantata All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Remove internal Samba shre mounting code, this had some privilege esc… · CDrummond/cantata@afc4f83 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Technical Description
oss-security - cantata: cantata-mounter D-Bus service local privilege escalation and other security issues MISC www.openwall.com Mailing List, Technical Description
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