CVE-2012-2321

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-05-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The loopback plug-in in ConnMan before 0.85 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the (1) host name or (2) domain name in a DHCP reply.

Affected products

ConnMan: through 0.84; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+77)

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=network/connman/connman.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=26ace5c59f790bce0f1988b88874c6f2c480fd5a
http://git.kernel.org/?p=network/connman/connman.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a5f540db7354b76bcabd0a05d8eb8ba2bff4e911
http://secunia.com/advisories/49033
http://secunia.com/advisories/49186
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201205-02.xml
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/07/10
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/07/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/07/6
http://www.osvdb.org/81705
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53408
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=715172
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75466

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