CVE-2018-20106

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
SUSEyast2-printerunspecified <= 4.0.2affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-78: CWE-78

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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