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Ubuntu Security NoticesUSN-8938-1

USN-8938-1: cifs-utils vulnerability

Severity not listed 0 CVEs Published Oct 19, 2026 at 1:56 PM UTC

Summary

It was discovered that cifs-utils incorrectly handled credentials files used by privileged mount.cifs invocations. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary mount options into a privileged mount, resulting in a privilege escalation.

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