Information Exposure Affecting cifs-utils package, versions <0:4.8.1-10.el6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.73% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-CIFSUTILS-1442558
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed21 Mar 2012

Introduced: 21 Mar 2012

CVE-2012-1586  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:6 cifs-utils to version 0:4.8.1-10.el6 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2012:0902.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cifs-utils package and not the cifs-utils package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

mount.cifs in cifs-utils 2.6 allows local users to determine the existence of arbitrary files or directories via the file path in the second argument, which reveals their existence in an error message.

CVSS Base Scores

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