CVE-2026-91837

high

Description

A flaw was found in NetworkManager-iodine, the iodine VPN plugin for NetworkManager. A local unprivileged user can exploit a vulnerability in how the 'nameserver' setting is processed when establishing an iodine VPN connection. By embedding shell metacharacters (special characters that can execute commands) in the 'nameserver' value, an attacker can inject and execute arbitrary commands. These commands run with root privileges before the application drops its elevated permissions, leading to local privilege escalation.

References

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/network-manager-iodine/-/work_items/4

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-87155

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2533634

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-91837

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-25

Updated: 2026-09-30

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00136