CVE-2018-14055: ZNC before 1.7.1-rc1 does not properly validate untrusted lines coming from the network, allowing a non-admin user to escalate his privilege and inject rogue…

PriorityP433medium6.5CVSS 3.0

AVNACLPRLUINSUCNIHAN

EPSS

1.46%

70.7th percentile

ZNC before 1.7.1-rc1 does not properly validate untrusted lines coming from the network, allowing a non-admin user to escalate his privilege and inject rogue values into znc.conf.

Affected

7 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	debian_linux	—	—
debian	znc	< znc 1.7.1-1 (bookworm)	znc 1.7.1-1 (bookworm)
znc	znc	<= 1.7.0	—
znc	znc	>= 0 < 1.7.1-1	1.7.1-1
znc	znc	>= 0 < 1.7.1-1	1.7.1-1
znc	znc	>= 0 < 1.7.1-1	1.7.1-1
znc	znc	>= 0 < 1.7.1-1	1.7.1-1

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.06.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

nvdv2.04.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

osv6.5MEDIUM

vendor_debian6.5MEDIUM

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