CVE-2018-20106: Opensuse YAST2-Printer

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In yast2-printer up to and including version 4.0.2 the SMB printer settings don't escape characters in passwords properly. If a password with backticks or simliar characters is supplied this allows for executing code as root. This requires tricking root to enter such a password in yast.

Affected products

• Opensuse YAST2-Printer: up to and including 4.0.2

Published 2019-03-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.