Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-12559  

An issue was discovered in the cantata-mounter D-Bus service in Cantata through 2.3.1. The mount target path check in mounter.cpp `mpOk()` is insufficient. A regular user can consequently mount a CIFS filesystem anywhere (e.g., outside of the /home directory tree) by passing directory traversal sequences such as a home/../usr substring.

Severity High

Remote No

Type Privilege escalation

Description

An issue was discovered in the cantata-mounter D-Bus service in Cantata through 2.3.1. The mount target path check in mounter.cpp `mpOk()` is insufficient. A regular user can consequently mount a CIFS filesystem anywhere (e.g., outside of the /home directory tree) by passing directory traversal sequences such as a home/../usr substring.

AVG-721 cantata 2.3.1-1 2.3.1-2 High Fixed

20 Jun 2018 ASA-201806-12 AVG-721 cantata High multiple issues

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/06/18/1	
https://github.com/CDrummond/cantata/commit/afc4f8315d3e96574925fb530a7004cc9e6ce3d3