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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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
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2020-09-09T12:15:11.210
Modified: 2024-11-21T05:03:03.067
Link: CVE-2020-14342
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