vulnerability

Arch Linux: Access restriction bypass (CVE-2018-12562)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 19, 2018
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

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).

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest
Title
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