vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2021-20208: cifs-utils: Container can use kerberos cache from the host via mount.cifs/cifs.upcall

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Apr 19, 2021
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in cifs-utils in versions before 6.13. A user when mounting a krb5 CIFS file system from within a container can use Kerberos credentials of the host. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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