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.
Published: 2021-04-19
Score: 6.1 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-7651 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5459-1 cifs-utils vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7688-1 cifs-utils vulnerabilities
History

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Subscriptions

Fedoraproject Fedora
Redhat Enterprise Linux
Samba Cifs-utils
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T17:30:07.497Z

Reserved: 2020-12-17T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-20208

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Status : Modified

Published: 2021-04-19T22:15:12.873

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:46:07.980

Link: CVE-2021-20208

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-04-12T09:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-20208 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses