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The vulnerability of the mount.cifs component of the CIFS file system mounting utility package cifs-utils in Linux operating systems allows a hacker to increase their privileges.

🗓️ 13 Jul 2022 00:00:00Reported by FSTEC of Russia — Information Security Threat DatabaseType 
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The mount.cifs vulnerability in the cifs-utils package allows privilege escalation by writing beyond memory buffer boundaries.

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ATTACKERKB		CVE-2022-29869
28 Apr 202201:15
–attackerkb
ATTACKERKB		CVE-2022-27239
27 Apr 202214:15
–attackerkb
Tenable Nessus		Amazon Linux 2022 : cifs-utils, cifs-utils-devel, cifs-utils-info (ALAS2022-2022-089)
7 Sep 202200:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		Amazon Linux 2022 : cifs-utils, cifs-utils-devel, cifs-utils-info (ALAS2022-2022-204)
4 Nov 202200:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		Amazon Linux 2023 : cifs-utils, cifs-utils-devel, cifs-utils-info (ALAS2023-2024-530)
20 Feb 202400:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		Amazon Linux 2 : cifs-utils, --advisory ALAS2-2023-1977 (ALAS-2023-1977)
7 Mar 202300:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		Amazon Linux 2 : cifs-utils (ALAS-2023-1978)
7 Mar 202300:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		Amazon Linux AMI : cifs-utils (ALAS-2023-1698)
7 Mar 202300:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		Debian DLA-3009-1 : cifs-utils - LTS security update
16 May 202200:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		Debian DSA-5157-1 : cifs-utils - security update
3 Jun 202200:00
–nessus
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altspwww.altsp.su/obnovleniya-bezopasnosti/
githubwww.github.com/piastry/cifs-utils/pull/7
githubwww.github.com/piastry/cifs-utils/pull/7/commits/955fb147e97a6a74e1aaa65766de91e2c1479765
security-trackerwww.security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-29869
susewww.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-27239.html
ubuntuwww.ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5459-1
listswww.lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/5WBOLMANBYJILXQKRRK7OCR774PXJAYY/
listswww.lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/HXKZLJYJJEC3TIBFLXUORRMZUKG5W676/
listswww.lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/QIYZ4L6SLSYJQ446VJAO2VGAESURQNSP/
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10 Sep 2025 00:00Current
6.7Medium risk
Vulners AI Score6.7
CVSS 26.8
CVSS 37.8
EPSS0.00854
mount.cifscifs-utilsprivilege escalationmemory buffer overflow
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