CVE-2015-1322: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Ubuntu network-manager package for Ubuntu (vivid) before 0.9.10.0-4ubuntu15.1, Ubuntu 14.10 before 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu28.1, and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS before 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu7.1 allows local users to change the modem device configuration or read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the file name in a request to read modem device contexts (com.canonical.NMOfono.ReadImsiContexts).

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 14.10 only; version 15.1 only
• Ubuntu Network-Manager: up to and including 0.9.8.7

Published 2015-04-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.