Critical severity9.8OSV Advisory· Published Jun 19, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-12562
CVE-2018-12562
Description
An issue was discovered in the cantata-mounter D-Bus service in Cantata through 2.3.1. The wrapper script 'mount.cifs.wrapper' uses the shell to forward the arguments to the actual mount.cifs binary. The shell evaluates wildcards (such as in an injected string:/home/../tmp/* string).
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Affected products
3v2.1.0, v2.2.0, v2.3.0, …+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: v2.1.0, v2.2.0, v2.3.0, …
- (no CPE)range: <=2.3.1
Patches
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References
2- github.com/CDrummond/cantata/commit/afc4f8315d3e96574925fb530a7004cc9e6ce3d3nvdPatchTechnical Description
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/06/18/1nvdMailing ListTechnical Description
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