vulnerability

Arch Linux: Privilege escalation (CVE-2018-10900)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 26, 2018
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

When initiating a VPNC connection, Network Manager spawns a new vpnc process and passes the configuration via STDIN. By injecting a \n character into a configuration parameter, an attacker can coerce Network Manager to set the Password helper option to an attacker controlled executable file.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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