A flaw was found in cifs-utils. This flaw allows an unprivileged local user to achieve privilege escalation. When a privileged service mounts a Common Internet File System (CIFS) share using a user-controlled credentials file, input values are not properly sanitized before being assembled into mount options. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability to inject unauthorized mount options, allowing them to bypass permission checks and execute files with administrative (root) privileges.
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| Description | A flaw was found in cifs-utils. This flaw allows an unprivileged local user to achieve privilege escalation. When a privileged service mounts a Common Internet File System (CIFS) share using a user-controlled credentials file, input values are not properly sanitized before being assembled into mount options. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability to inject unauthorized mount options, allowing them to bypass permission checks and execute files with administrative (root) privileges. | |
| Title | Cifs-utils: mount.cifs credential-file option injection allows local privilege boundary bypass | |
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Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux Redhat openshift |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-88 | |
| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 |
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Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux Redhat openshift |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2026-10-16T06:47:10.481Z
Reserved: 2026-10-02T11:04:55.082Z
Link: CVE-2026-104715
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-16T07:17:08.090
Modified: 2026-10-16T07:17:08.090
Link: CVE-2026-104715
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