CVE-2018-12562

Publication date 19 June 2018

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

High

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

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).

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
cantata 19.10 eoan
Not affected
19.04 disco
Not affected
18.10 cosmic
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H