CVE-2012-1586
cifs-utils - Exposure of Sensitive Information via Error Message
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2012-1586. PoCs published by Sha0.
AI-analyzed exploit summary The exploit leverages a vulnerability in mount.cifs (CVE-2012-1586) to perform a privileged chdir() operation, allowing a non-root user to enumerate files and directories as root. The PoC script uses mount.cifs to probe paths and infer file types based on error messages.
Description
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.
Exploits (1)
The exploit leverages a vulnerability in mount.cifs (CVE-2012-1586) to perform a privileged chdir() operation, allowing a non-root user to enumerate files and directories as root. The PoC script uses mount.cifs to probe paths and infer file types based on error messages.