Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-12562  

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).

Severity High

Remote No

Type Access restriction bypass

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).

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

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