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2 vulnerabilities found for NetworkManager-vpnc by GNOME

CVE-2026-91841 (GCVE-0-2026-91841)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-25 17:56
Modified
2026-09-28 12:43
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-93 - Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences ('CRLF Injection')
Summary
A flaw was found in NetworkManager-vpnc, a VPN plugin for NetworkManager. A local unprivileged user can exploit this vulnerability by injecting a newline character into the CA-File path. This manipulation allows the user to execute arbitrary commands as the root user, leading to local privilege escalation.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GNOME NetworkManager-vpnc Version: 0   ≤
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CVE-2026-91840 (GCVE-0-2026-91840)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-25 17:56
Modified
2026-09-28 12:44
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-93 - Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences ('CRLF Injection')
Summary
A flaw was found in NetworkManager-vpnc. This vulnerability allows a local unprivileged user to escalate privileges to root. By injecting a newline character into the VPN username field, an attacker can manipulate the vpnc configuration to execute an arbitrary program with root privileges when the malicious VPN connection is activated.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GNOME NetworkManager-vpnc Version: 0   ≤
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