CVE-2018-1111

Published May 17, 2018

Last updated 3 days ago

Overview

Description
DHCP packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7, Fedora 28, and earlier are vulnerable to a command injection flaw in the NetworkManager integration script included in the DHCP client. A malicious DHCP server, or an attacker on the local network able to spoof DHCP responses, could use this flaw to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on systems using NetworkManager and configured to obtain network configuration using the DHCP protocol.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

Type
Primary
Base score
7.5
Impact score
5.9
Exploitability score
1.6
Vector string
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity
HIGH

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
7.9
Impact score
10
Exploitability score
5.5
Vector string
AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

secalert@redhat.com
CWE-77
nvd@nist.gov
CWE-78

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations

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