CVE-2021-20208 (GCVE-0-2021-20208)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-04-19 21:12 – Updated: 2024-08-03 17:30
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CWE
Assigner
References
5 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1921116 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14651 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n/a | cifs-utils |
Affected:
cifs-utils 6.13
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