CVE-2020-14342

low-risk

Published 2020-09-09

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.

Do I need to act?

0.13% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 4.4/10 Medium

LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (4)

Cifs-Utils

Fedora

Leap

Affected Vendors

Samba Fedoraproject Opensuse

References (12)

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00109.html

Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14342

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...

Exploit https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2020-September/135747.html

Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202009-16

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00109.html

Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14342

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...

Exploit https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2020-September/135747.html

Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202009-16

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low-risk

Severity 15/34 · Moderate

Exploitability 1/34 · Minimal

Exposure 10/34 · Low