Networkmanager Security Vulnerabilities - 2020

CVE-2006-7246

NetworkManager 0.9.x does not pin a certificate's subject to an ESSID when 802.11X authentication is used.

CVE-2012-1096

NetworkManager 0.9 and earlier allows local users to use other users' certificates or private keys when making a connection via the file path when adding a new connection.

CVE-2020-10754

It was found that nmcli, a command line interface to NetworkManager did not honour 802-1x.ca-path and 802-1x.phase2-ca-path settings, when creating a new profile. When a user connects to a network using this profile, the authentication does not happen and the connection is made insecurely.