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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2020-09-09T11:13:35

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

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

Link: CVE-2020-14342

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2023-11-07T03:17:09.400

Link: CVE-2020-14342

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

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

Links: CVE-2020-14342 - Bugzilla