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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-6487 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5459-1 cifs-utils vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7688-1 cifs-utils vulnerabilities
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History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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{'score': 0.00134}

epss

{'score': 0.00191}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T12:39:36.529Z

Reserved: 2020-06-17T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-14342

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-09-09T12:15:11.210

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:03:03.067

Link: CVE-2020-14342

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2020-09-03T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-14342 - Bugzilla

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