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CVE-2020-14342

7.0 highEPSS 0.7%

High (7.0). EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

It was found that cifs-utils' mount.cifs was invoking a shell when requesting the Samba password, which could be used to inject arbitrary commands. An attacker able to invoke mount.cifs with special permission, such as via sudo rules, could use this flaw to escalate their privileges.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.0 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 51% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs
CWE-78, CWE-77
Published
Modified
Record from
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Affected

References

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