| Name | CVE-2020-10754 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| NVD severity | medium |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| network-manager (PTS) | stretch | 1.6.2-3+deb9u2 | vulnerable |
| buster | 1.14.6-2+deb10u1 | vulnerable | |
| bullseye | 1.24.2-1 | vulnerable | |
| sid | 1.25.91-2 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| network-manager | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant |
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/issues/448
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/commit/8affcc19b61fc3c516474ba075e61b82030feeb4
Only affects builds enabling ifcfg-rh settings plugin, source-wise only
affected but not the Debian binary builds (and is RedHat/Fedora specific
plugin).