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CVE-2020-10754

Published: 8 June 2020

It was found that nmcli, a command line interface to NetworkManager did not honour 802-1x.ca-path and 802-1x.phase2-ca-path settings, when creating a new profile. When a user connects to a network using this profile, the authentication does not happen and the connection is made insecurely.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
only affects the ifcfg-rh settings plugin which isn't used on
Ubuntu, marking as not-affected

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

4.3

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
network-manager
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Not vulnerable

eoan Not vulnerable

focal Not vulnerable

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Not vulnerable

Patches:
upstream: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/commit/8affcc19b61fc3c516474ba075e61b82030feeb4

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 4.3
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N