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CVE-2012-2321

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Description

The loopback plug-in in ConnMan before 0.85 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the (1) host name or (2) domain name in a DHCP reply.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75466

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=715172

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53408

http://www.osvdb.org/81705

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/07/6

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/07/2

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/07/10

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201205-02.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/49186

http://secunia.com/advisories/49033

http://git.kernel.org/?p=network/connman/connman.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a5f540db7354b76bcabd0a05d8eb8ba2bff4e911

http://git.kernel.org/?p=network/connman/connman.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=26ace5c59f790bce0f1988b88874c6f2c480fd5a

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-05-18

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.03492

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