vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-14342: LinuxCIFS: Shell injection

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 9, 2020
Added
Sep 30, 2020
Modified
Aug 13, 2025

Description

It was found that cifs-utils' mount.cifs was invoking a shell when requesting the Samba password, which could be used to inject arbitrary commands. An attacker able to invoke mount.cifs with special permission, such as via sudo rules, could use this flaw to escalate their privileges.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-fs-cifs-utils
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