Information Exposure Affecting networkmanager/networkmanager package, versions [,1.10.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.31% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NETWORKMANAGERNETWORKMANAGER-2635687
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed20 Mar 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Mar 2018

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

How to fix?

Upgrade networkmanager/networkmanager to version 1.10.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. 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.

CVSS Scores

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