Microsoft security update for CVE-2020-14342
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products2
- cbl2 cifs-utils 6.8-6 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cm1 cifs-utils 6.8-4 on CBL Mariner 1.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates
2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 6.8-4 |
| — | Security Update | 6.8-6 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2020-14342
- EchelonGraph score
- 7.0 HIGH
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
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.
Published by Red Hat, Inc., the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2020-14342, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).