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CVE-2018-14055

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-07-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

ZNC before 1.7.1-rc1 does not properly validate untrusted lines coming from the network, allowing a non-admin user to escalate his privilege and inject rogue values into znc.conf.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• znc: through 1.7.0

References

• https://github.com/znc/znc/commit/a7bfbd93812950b7444841431e8e297e62cb524e
• https://github.com/znc/znc/commit/d22fef8620cdd87490754f607e7153979731c69d
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-03
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4252
• https://github.com/znc/znc/commit/a7bfbd93812950b7444841431e8e297e62cb524e
• https://github.com/znc/znc/commit/d22fef8620cdd87490754f607e7153979731c69d
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-03
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4252

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