CVE-2018-20106

SMB printer settings don't escape characters in passwords properly

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Mar 15, 2019
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Dec 12, 2018

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	microfocus

Weaknesses

CWE-78

Affected Products

Product	Versions
yast2-printerSUSE	4.0.2 and earlierAffected

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1114853

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