CVE-2021-20208

MEDIUM

cifs-utils < 6.13 - Unauthenticated Kerberos Credential Exposure via Container Mount

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1921116
Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14651

Scores

CVSS v3 6.1
EPSS 0.0037
EPSS Percentile 59.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-269 CWE-266
Status published
Products (6)
fedoraproject/fedora 33
fedoraproject/fedora 34
fedoraproject/fedora 35
redhat/enterprise_linux 7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux 8.0
samba/cifs-utils 4.0 - 6.13
Published Apr 19, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026