Information Exposure Affecting network-manager package, versions <1.12.0-2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.31% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-NETWORKMANAGER-528116
  • published20 Mar 2018
  • disclosed20 Mar 2018

Introduced: 20 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-1000135  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 network-manager to version 1.12.0-2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream network-manager package and not the network-manager package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

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 available at this time.