Network-Manager Project Network-Manager vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-9615 [LOW] CVE-2025-9615: A flaw was found in NetworkManager A flaw was found in NetworkManager. The NetworkManager package allows access to files that may belong to other users. NetworkManager allows non-root users to configure the system's network. The daemon runs with root privileges and can access files owned by users different from the one who added the connection.

CVE-2024-6501 [LOW] CVE-2024-6501: A flaw was found in NetworkManager A flaw was found in NetworkManager. When a system running NetworkManager with DEBUG logs enabled and an interface eth1 configured with LLDP enabled, a malicious user could inject a malformed LLDP packet. NetworkManager would crash, leading to a denial of service.

CVE-2021-20297 [MEDIUM] CVE-2021-20297: A flaw was found in NetworkManager in versions before 1 A flaw was found in NetworkManager in versions before 1.30.0. Setting match.path and activating a profile crashes NetworkManager. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

CVE-2020-10754 [MEDIUM] CVE-2020-10754: It was found that nmcli, a command line interface to NetworkManager did not honour 802-1x It was found that nmcli, a command line interface to NetworkManager did not honour 802-1x.ca-path and 802-1x.phase2-ca-path settings, when creating a new profile. When a user connects to a network using this profile, the authentication does not happen and the connection is made insecurely.

CVE-2019-10786 [CRITICAL] CWE-78 CVE-2019-10786: network-manager through 1.0.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the "execSyn network-manager through 1.0.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the "execSync()" argument.

CVE-2006-7246 [MEDIUM] CVE-2006-7246: NetworkManager 0 NetworkManager 0.9.x does not pin a certificate's subject to an ESSID when 802.11X authentication is used.

CVE-2012-2736 [MEDIUM] CVE-2012-2736: In NetworkManager 0 In NetworkManager 0.9.2.0, when a new wireless network was created with WPA/WPA2 security in AdHoc mode, it created an open/insecure network.

CVE-2018-15688 [HIGH] CVE-2018-15688: A buffer overflow vulnerability in the dhcp6 client of systemd allows a malicious dhcp6 server to overwrite heap memory in systemd-networkd A buffer overflow vulnerability in the dhcp6 client of systemd allows a malicious dhcp6 server to overwrite heap memory in systemd-networkd. Affected releases are systemd: versions up to and including 239.

CVE-2018-1000135 [HIGH] CVE-2018-1000135: GNOME NetworkManager version 1 GNOME NetworkManager version 1.10.2 and earlier contains a Information Exposure (CWE-200) vulnerability in DNS resolver that can result in Private DNS queries leaked to local network's DNS servers, while on VPN. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in Some Ubuntu 16.04 packages were fixed, but later updates removed the fix. cf. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1754671 an upstream fix does not appear to be ava

CVE-2016-0764 [MEDIUM] CVE-2016-0764: Race condition in Network Manager before 1 Race condition in Network Manager before 1.0.12 as packaged in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 allows local users to obtain sensitive connection information by reading temporary files during ifcfg and keyfile changes.

CVE-2015-0272 [MEDIUM] CVE-2015-0272: GNOME NetworkManager allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (IPv6 traffic disruption) via a crafted MTU value in an IPv6 Router Advertis GNOME NetworkManager allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (IPv6 traffic disruption) via a crafted MTU value in an IPv6 Router Advertisement (RA) message, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8215.

CVE-2015-2924 [LOW] CVE-2015-2924: The receive_ra function in rdisc/nm-lndp-rdisc The receive_ra function in rdisc/nm-lndp-rdisc.c in the Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in NetworkManager 1.x allows remote attackers to reconfigure a hop-limit setting via a small hop_limit value in a Router Advertisement (RA) message, a similar issue to CVE-2015-2922.

CVE-2015-1322 [MEDIUM] CVE-2015-1322: Directory traversal vulnerability in the Ubuntu network-manager package for Ubuntu (vivid) before 0 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

CVE-2011-2176 [LOW] CVE-2011-2176: GNOME NetworkManager before 0 GNOME NetworkManager before 0.8.6 does not properly enforce the auth_admin element in PolicyKit, which allows local users to bypass intended wireless network sharing restrictions via unspecified vectors.

CVE-2009-0365 [MEDIUM] CVE-2009-0365: nm-applet nm-applet.conf in GNOME NetworkManager before 0.7.0.99 contains an incorrect deny setting, which allows local users to discover (1) network connection passwords and (2) pre-shared keys via calls to the GetSecrets method in the dbus request handler.