Shell Command Injection Risk in CIFS Utils by Samba

CVE-2020-14342

What is CVE-2020-14342?

A serious vulnerability exists in the cifs-utils component of Samba, where the mount.cifs utility can invoke a shell when requesting the Samba password. This behavior presents an opportunity for an attacker, particularly one with elevated privileges or special permission to run mount.cifs (such as through sudo), to exploit this flaw. By leveraging this weakness, an attacker could craft commands that execute arbitrary code, potentially leading to privilege escalation and unauthorized system access.

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