DEBIAN-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...