CVE-2020-10754

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-06-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

It was found that nmcli, a command line interface to NetworkManager did not honour 802-1x.ca-path and 802-1x.phase2-ca-path settings, when creating a new profile. When a user connects to a network using this profile, the authentication does not happen and the connection is made insecurely.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 31
GNOME NetworkManager: before 1.22.14; from 1.24.0 before 1.24.2 — fixed in 1.22.14, 1.24.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GNOME NetworkManager 1.22.14, 1.24.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10754
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/44FTVXWKDYIAMOOP2PZMUY3D2QNWAVBZ/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10754
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/44FTVXWKDYIAMOOP2PZMUY3D2QNWAVBZ/

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