CVE-2018-12562: Cantata Project Cantata

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in the cantata-mounter D-Bus service in Cantata through 2.3.1. The wrapper script 'mount.cifs.wrapper' uses the shell to forward the arguments to the actual mount.cifs binary. The shell evaluates wildcards (such as in an injected string:/home/../tmp/* string).

Affected products

• Cantata Project Cantata: up to and including 2.3.1

Published 2018-06-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.