Description
GNOME NetworkManager version 1.10.2 and earlier contains a Information Exposure (CWE-200) vulnerability in DNS resolver that can result in Private DNS queries leaked to local network's DNS servers, while on VPN. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in Some Ubuntu 16.04 packages were fixed, but later updates removed the fix. cf. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1754671 an upstream fix does not appear to be available at this time.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746422
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103478
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1553634
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1754671
Mailing List vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00005.html
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0112
EPSS Percentile
78.4%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-200
Status
published
Products (2)
canonical/ubuntu_linux
16.04
gnome/networkmanager
< 1.10.2
Published
Mar 20, 2018
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026