vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2021-20208): cifs-utils vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Apr 13, 2021
Added
Jun 4, 2022
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-cifs-utilsubuntu-upgrade-cifs-utils
Title
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