Incorrect Privilege Assignment The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package cifs-utils  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-CIFSUTILS-1623784
  • published13 May 2022
  • disclosed19 Apr 2021

Introduced: 19 Apr 2021

CVE-2021-20208  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-266  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

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 Ubuntu.

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.