HIGH 7.0 Microsoft
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.
Microsoft Security Update 2020-Sep: 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.
Affected Products
- cm1 cifs-utils 6.8-4 on CBL Mariner 1.0
- cbl2 cifs-utils 6.8-6 on CBL Mariner 2.0
References
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2020-14342
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-14342
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.0 was published on 2020-09-08 via Microsoft. Affected: cm1 cifs-utils 6.8-4 on CBL Mariner 1.0, cbl2 cifs-utils 6.8-6 on CBL Mariner 2.0.
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