Skip to content
Fencer Intel
medium 6.9

CVE-2011-3364 json

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in the svEscape function in settings/plugins/ifcfg-rh/shvar.c in the ifcfg-rh plug-in for GNOME NetworkM…

published 2011-11-04 15 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2011-3328

cvss
6.9
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 41%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in the svEscape function in settings/plugins/ifcfg-rh/shvar.c in the ifcfg-rh plug-in for GNOME NetworkManager 0.9.1, 0.9.0, 0.8.1, and possibly other versions, when PolicyKit is configured to allow users to create new connections, allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a newline character in the name for a new network connection, which is not properly handled when writing to the ifcfg file.

Patch / fix

  • NetworkManager RHEL 6 1:0.8.1-9.el6_1.3
  • NetworkManager-glib RHEL 6 1:0.8.1-9.el6_1.3
  • NetworkManager-gnome RHEL 6 1:0.8.1-9.el6_1.3

red hat advisories RHSA-2011:1338

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2011-3364 updated cvss 6.9

NetworkManager: Console user can escalate to root via newlines in ifcfg-rh connection name

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) NetworkManager 0.8.1-9.el6_1.3, NetworkManager-glib 0.8.1-9.el6_1.3, NetworkManager-gnome 0.8.1-9.el6_1.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) NetworkManager 0.8.1-9.el6_1.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2011:1338
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 NetworkManager Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 NetworkManager
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 41% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugzilla.redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737338 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • xorl.wordpress.com http://xorl.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/cve-2011-3364-gnome-networkmanager-local-privilege-escalation/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.