CVE-2018-10900

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-10900
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-10900.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-10900
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-07-26T15:29:00.450Z
Modified
2026-07-13T04:00:37.767634834Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Network Manager VPNC plugin (aka networkmanager-vpnc) before version 1.2.6 is vulnerable to a privilege escalation attack. A new line character can be used to inject a Password helper parameter into the configuration data passed to VPNC, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "8.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "9.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git
gitlab.freedesktop.org/networkmanager/networkmanager

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/networkmanager/networkmanager
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
0001318d9ffc66f003d8270ef7485f07b195616b
Database specific 
{
    "source": "CPE_RANGE",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnome:network_manager_vpnc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "1.2.6"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.7.997
0.8-rc1
0.8.995
0.8.996
0.8.997
0.8.998
0.8.999
0.8.9997
0.9-rc2
0.9-rc3
0.9.0
0.9.0-beta1
0.9.0-beta2
0.9.0-beta3
0.9.0-rc1
0.9.1.90
0.9.1.95
0.9.10-beta1
0.9.2
0.9.2-beta1
0.9.2-rc1
0.9.2.0
0.9.3.990
0.9.3.995
0.9.3.997
0.9.4-beta1
0.9.4-rc1
0.9.4.0
0.9.5.95
0.9.5.96
0.9.6-rc1
0.9.6-rc2
0.9.6.0
0.9.7.995
0.9.8-beta1
0.9.9.1
0.9.9.95
1.*
1.1.0-dev
1.2-beta1
1.2-beta2
1.2-beta3
1.2-rc1
1.2-rc2
1.2.0
1.2.1-dev
1.2.2
1.2.3-dev
1.2.4
1.2.5-dev

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-10900.json"
gitlab.gnome.org/gnome/networkmanager-vpnc

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://gitlab.gnome.org/gnome/networkmanager-vpnc
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
07ac18a32b4
Database specific 
{
    "source": "REFERENCES"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-10900.json"