Security Advisory

CVE-2018-10900

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-07-26 15:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 07:54:36
Assigner redhat
CVSS score 8.8
State PUBLISHED

Description

Network Manager VPNC plugin (aka networkmanager-vpnc) before version 1.2.6 is vulnerable to a privilege escalation attack. A new line character can be used to inject a Password helper parameter into the configuration data passed to VPNC, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root.