Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the Ubuntu network-manager package for Ubuntu (vivid) before 0.9.10.0-4ubuntu15.1, Ubuntu 14.10 before 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu28.1, and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS before 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu7.1 allows local users to change the modem device configuration or read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the file name in a request to read modem device contexts (com.canonical.NMOfono.ReadImsiContexts).
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Access Vector
- local
- Access Cmplx
- low
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- partial
- Integrity
- partial
- Availability
- partial
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- CANONICAL
- Published
- 4/29/2015
- Last Modified
- 4/12/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
canonical : ubuntu_linuxcanonical : ubuntu_linuxcanonical : ubuntu_linuxubuntu : network-manager
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