Samba Cifs Utils
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By the Year
In 2025 there have been 0 vulnerabilities in Samba Cifs Utils. Cifs Utils did not have any published security vulnerabilities last year.
| Year | Vulnerabilities | Average Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2022 | 2 | 6.55 |
| 2021 | 1 | 6.10 |
| 2020 | 1 | 7.00 |
| 2019 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0.00 |
It may take a day or so for new Cifs Utils vulnerabilities to show up in the stats or in the list of recent security vulnerabilties. Additionally vulnerabilities may be tagged under a different product or component name.
Recent Samba Cifs Utils Security Vulnerabilities
cifs-utils through 6.14, with verbose logging
CVE-2022-29869
5.3 - Medium
- April 28, 2022
cifs-utils through 6.14, with verbose logging, can cause an information leak when a file contains = (equal sign) characters but is not a valid credentials file.
Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File
In cifs-utils through 6.14
CVE-2022-27239
7.8 - High
- April 27, 2022
In cifs-utils through 6.14, a stack-based buffer overflow when parsing the mount.cifs ip= command-line argument could lead to local attackers gaining root privileges.
Memory Corruption
A flaw was found in cifs-utils in versions before 6.13
CVE-2021-20208
6.1 - Medium
- April 19, 2021
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.
Improper Privilege Management
It was found that cifs-utils' mount.cifs was invoking a shell when requesting the Samba password
CVE-2020-14342
7 - High
- September 09, 2020
It was found that cifs-utils' mount.cifs was invoking a shell when requesting the Samba password, which could be used to inject arbitrary commands. An attacker able to invoke mount.cifs with special permission, such as via sudo rules, could use this flaw to escalate their privileges.
Shell injection
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