CVE-2026-93337 PUBLISHED

NetworkManager-l2tp Privilege Escalation via pppd Plugin Injection

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 17.09.2026 Published: 17.09.2026 Updated: 17.09.2026

NetworkManager-l2tp contains an improper input validation vulnerability that allows local users with VPN connection creation permissions to inject arbitrary pppd directives by supplying mru or mtu property values containing trailing non-numeric content after a valid integer. Attackers can exploit the verbatim write of unvalidated strings into the pppd options file via write_config_option() to inject the plugin directive, causing the privileged pppd process to load an attacker-controlled shared object and achieve arbitrary code execution as root.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.5

Product Status

Vendor nm-l2tp
Product NetworkManager-l2tp
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.52.4 (incl.)

Credits

  • Andres Berbescu (4drez) finder

References

Problem Types

  • Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection') CWE