What is CVE-2018-20106?

CVE-2018-20106 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Opensuse Yast2-Printer, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-03-15.

How severe is CVE-2018-20106?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

RCE in Opensuse Yast2-Printer

CVE-2018-20106

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.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.010 (60.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Opensuse Yast2-printer
Suse Yast2-printer — versions unspecified

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

security@opentext.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-20106?: CVE-2018-20106 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Opensuse Yast2-Printer, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-03-15.
How severe is CVE-2018-20106?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.