CVE-2026-68083 (GCVE-0-2026-68083)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 11:41 – Updated: 2026-10-21 12:43
VLAI
Title
ksmbd: fix path resolution in ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_create
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix path resolution in ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_create The SMB2 open lookup is rooted at the share with LOOKUP_BENEATH, but the create/mkdir/hardlink sink is not: ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_create() builds an absolute path with convert_to_unix_name() and resolves it from AT_FDCWD via start_creating_path(), so a ".." component is walked from the real filesystem root and escapes the export. An authenticated client races a missing path component so the rooted open lookup returns -ENOENT (taking the create branch) while the same component is present (a directory) when the create walk runs; the create then resolves ".." out of the share. Root the create walk at the share like the lookup and rename paths already are: resolve the parent with vfs_path_parent_lookup(..., LOOKUP_BENEATH, &share_conf->vfs_path) and create the final component with start_creating_noperm(). convert_to_unix_name() then has no callers and is removed.
Severity
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7033 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 265fd1991c1db85fbabaad4946ca0e63e2ae688d , < a2516be69048856e2a49a51e00975dc59431f95c (git)
Affected: 265fd1991c1db85fbabaad4946ca0e63e2ae688d , < 489d1ded01425c0fb33418172c0e4e588467526b (git)
Affected: 265fd1991c1db85fbabaad4946ca0e63e2ae688d , < c7c884a1305aa4540eb7942a50bd356b34120e1f (git)
Affected: 265fd1991c1db85fbabaad4946ca0e63e2ae688d , < 98185b3025beeae92d1fe700d5db26b9ac4bf025 (git)
Affected: 265fd1991c1db85fbabaad4946ca0e63e2ae688d , < 1c8951963d8ed357f70f59e0ad4ddce2199d2016 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.160 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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