RHEL 10 : cifs-utils (RHSA-2026:32990)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:32990 advisory. The SMB/CIFS protocol is a standard file sharing protocol widely deployed on Microsoft Windows machines. The cifs-utils packages contain tools for...

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...

CVE-2026-12505 Cifs-utils: local privilege escalation via forged cifs.spnego key description in cifs.upcall

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...

CVE-2026-12505 Cifs-utils: local privilege escalation via forged cifs.spnego key description in cifs.upcall

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...

EUVD-2026-37834

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...

CVE-2026-12505

CVE-2026-12505 concerns the cifs-utils package. The issue: the root-owned cifs.upcall fails to securely drop root privileges before consulting user information, allowing a local, low-privilege attacker to craft a request_key payload that causes the process to enter a controlled environment with a...

Important Photon OS Security Update - PHSA-2025-5.0-0691

Updates of 'linux-esx', 'linux', 'cifs-utils' packages of Photon OS have been released...

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ROS-20250829-01

A vulnerability in the mount.cifs.c component of the CIFS network file system mount utility package cifs-utils of the Linux operating system is related to writing beyond buffer boundaries in memory. Exploitation exploitation of the vulnerability could allow an attacker to escalate his privileges...

USN-7688-1: cifs-utils vulnerabilities

Aurélien Aptel discovered that cifs-utils invoked a shell when requesting a password. In certain environments, a local attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges. CVE-2020-14342 It was discovered that cifs-utils incorrectly used host credentials when mounting a krb5 CIFS file...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-2312

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 cifs-utils. When trying to obtain Kerberos credentials, the cifs.upcall program from the cifs-utils package makes an upcall to the wrong...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-7536-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

USN-7536-2: cifs-utils regression

USN-7536-1 fixed vulnerabilities in cifs-utils. This update introduced a regression in certain environments. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that cifs-utils incorrectly handled namespaces when obtaining Kerberos...

USN-7536-2 cifs-utils regression

USN-7536-1 fixed vulnerabilities in cifs-utils. This update introduced a regression in certain environments. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that cifs-utils incorrectly handled namespaces when obtaining Kerberos...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2025-0176)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...