CVE-2024-36053 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

In the mintupload package through 4.2.0 for Linux Mint, service-name mishandling leads to command injection via shell metacharacters in check_connection, drop_data_received_cb, and Service.remove. A user can modify a service name in a ~/.linuxmint/mintUpload/services/service file.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01117.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Linuxmint	Mintupload

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2024-35857	In the mintupload package through 4.2.0 for Linux Mint, service-name mishandling leads to command injection via shell metacharacters in check_connection, drop_data_received_cb, and Service.remove. A user can modify a service name in a ~/.linuxmint/mintUpload/services/service file.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/main/m/mintupload/
https://github.com/linuxmint/mintupload/issues/42
https://github.com/linuxmint/mintupload/issues/43

History

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

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00632}`	epss `{'score': 0.00825}`

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Linuxmint Linuxmint mintupload
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:linuxmint:mintupload:-:::::::*
Vendors & Products		Linuxmint Linuxmint mintupload
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-05-19T15:16:18.773Z

Updated: 2025-02-13T15:59:12.880Z

Reserved: 2024-05-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2024-36053

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T03:30:12.550Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-05-19T16:15:45.687

Modified: 2024-11-21T09:21:31.580

Link: CVE-2024-36053

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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