Information Exposure Affecting NetworkManager package, versions <1.10.6-5.6.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.31% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-NETWORKMANAGER-2753012
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed28 May 2019

Introduced: 28 May 2019

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

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 NetworkManager to version 1.10.6-5.6.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream NetworkManager package and not the NetworkManager package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 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.