VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-12562
The shell evaluates wildcards (such as in an injected string:/home/../tmp/* string).
CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 1.66%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.66%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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).
- CVSS 3.0
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.66% probability · 75th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-20
- Affected
- cantata project/cantata
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/06/18/1Mailing List, Technical Description
- https://github.com/CDrummond/cantata/commit/afc4f8315d3e96574925fb530a7004cc9e6ce3d3Patch, Technical Description
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/06/18/1Mailing List, Technical Description
- https://github.com/CDrummond/cantata/commit/afc4f8315d3e96574925fb530a7004cc9e6ce3d3Patch, Technical Description
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.