Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title Neovim vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-4016-2 First vendor Publication 2019-06-11
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2019-06-11
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 19.04 - Ubuntu 18.10

Summary:

Neovim could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description: - neovim: heavily refactored vim fork

Details:

It was discovered that Neovim incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-12735)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 19.04:
neovim 0.3.4-1ubuntu0.19.04.1
neovim-runtime 0.3.4-1ubuntu0.19.04.1

Ubuntu 18.10:
neovim 0.3.1-1ubuntu0.1
neovim-runtime 0.3.1-1ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4016-2
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4016-1
CVE-2019-12735

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/neovim/0.3.4-1ubuntu0.19.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/neovim/0.3.1-1ubuntu0.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-4016-2

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-78 Improper Sanitization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Application 26

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Date Informations
2019-06-11 21:18:53
  • First insertion