CVE-2020-10754

MEDIUM

NetworkManager < 1.22.14 - Improper Authentication via nmcli Profile Creation

Title source: llm

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.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10754

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/44FTVXWKDYIAMOOP2PZMUY3D2QNWAVBZ/

Scores

CVSS v3 4.3

EPSS 0.0025

EPSS Percentile 48.5%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE

CWE-287 CWE-306

Status published

Products (2)

fedoraproject/fedora 31

gnome/networkmanager < 1.22.14

Published Jun 08, 2020

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026