Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-12505

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A flaw was found in the cifs-utils package where the cifs.upcall helper fails to securely drop its root privileges before looking up user information inside a...

CVE-2026-12505

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2026-06-18 20:39:41+00:00| seen| https://bsky.app/profile/postac001.bsky.social/post/3moloqiiwuc2g 2026-06-30 00:29:54+00:00| seen| https://bsky.app/profile/kriptabiz.bsky.social/post/3mphqqbg6v522...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-12505

A flaw was found in the cifs-utils package where the cifs.upcall helper fails to securely drop its root privileges before looking up user information inside a user-controlled environment. A local, low privileged attacker can exploit this by using a crafted requestkey payload to trick the root-own...

SUSE CVE-2026-12505

A flaw was found in the cifs-utils package where the cifs.upcall helper fails to securely drop its root privileges before looking up user information inside a user-controlled environment. A local, low privileged attacker can exploit this by using a crafted requestkey payload to trick the root-own...