CVE-2018-12562

critical

Description

An 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).

References

https://github.com/CDrummond/cantata/commit/afc4f8315d3e96574925fb530a7004cc9e6ce3d3

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/06/18/1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-06-19

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

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