Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-3364

RCE

Title: Gnome Networkmanager RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2011-3364.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Nov 04, 2011
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 6.9 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.46%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2011-3364: Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in the svEscape function in settings/plugins/ifcfg-rh/shvar.c in the ifcfg-rh plug-in for GNOME NetworkManager 0.9.1, 0.9.0, 0.8.1, and possibly other versions, when PolicyKit is configured to allow users to create new connections, allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a newline character in the name for a new network connection, which is not properly handled when writing to the ifcfg file.

Impacted Vendors

G
gnome 2
N
networkmanager_project 1
R
redhat 1

Reference Links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/066828.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:171 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1338.html http://xorl.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/cve-2011-3364-gnome-networkmanager-local-privilege-escalation/ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737338 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/066828.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:171 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1338.html http://xorl.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/cve-2011-3364-gnome-networkmanager-local-privilege-escalation/ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737338
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.9
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2011-3364 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.