Vulnerability CVE-2018-12562


Published: 2018-06-19

Description:
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).

Type:

CWE-20

(Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Cantata project -> Cantata 

 References:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/06/18/1
https://github.com/CDrummond/cantata/commit/afc4f8315d3e96574925fb530a7004cc9e6ce3d3

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