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    CVE-2020-14342

    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.

    Published:Sep 3, 2020
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Sep 9, 2020
    EPSS Score:0.00139
    CVSS Score:4.4

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Fedoraproject
    Product
    Fedora
    Vendor
    Opensuse
    Product
    Leap
    Vendor
    Samba
    Product
    Cifs-utils

    Exploits

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

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    References

    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00109.html
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14342
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DUMRICFXJVCBBOSKZSKT3HFVQM6VPJU3/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JBNFSTJOQWVPFZAUJNNMAPY45PW5RTTE/
    https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2020-September/135747.html
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202009-16
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00109.html
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14342
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DUMRICFXJVCBBOSKZSKT3HFVQM6VPJU3/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JBNFSTJOQWVPFZAUJNNMAPY45PW5RTTE/
    https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2020-September/135747.html
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202009-16

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