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Vulnerability CVE-2018-20106
 Published: 2019-03-15   Modified: 2019-03-16
 
 
	
		| Description: | 
	 
	
		In yast2-printer up to and including version 4.0.2 the SMB printer settings don't escape characters in passwords properly. If a password with backticks or simliar characters is supplied this allows for executing code as root. This requires tricking root to enter such a password in yast. | 
	 
	 
Type:
 CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation)
				 CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
				| CVSS Base Score | 
Impact Subscore | 
Exploitability Subscore |  
							9.3/10 | 
							10/10 | 
							8.6/10 | 
					 
				 
	
						| Exploit range | 
						Attack complexity | 
						Authentication | 
				 
						Remote | 
						Medium | 
						No required | 
				 
						| Confidentiality impact | 
						Integrity impact | 
						Availability impact | 
				 
						Complete | 
						Complete | 
						Complete | 
				 
			 
 References: |  
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1114853 
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