CVE-2020-14342

It was found that cifs-utils' mount.cifs was invoking a shell when requesting the Samba password, which could be used to inject arbitrary commands. An attacker able to invoke mount.cifs with special permission, such as via sudo rules, could use this flaw to escalate their privileges.

• CWE-77
• CWE-78

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00109.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14342Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DUMRICFXJVCBBOSKZSKT3HFVQM6VPJU3/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JBNFSTJOQWVPFZAUJNNMAPY45PW5RTTE/
• https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2020-September/135747.htmlExploit, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202009-16Third Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00109.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14342Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DUMRICFXJVCBBOSKZSKT3HFVQM6VPJU3/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JBNFSTJOQWVPFZAUJNNMAPY45PW5RTTE/
• https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2020-September/135747.htmlExploit, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202009-16Third Party Advisory

Published

Sep 9, 2020

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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