USN-5459-1: cifs-utils Ubuntu

CVSS: UnknownPublished
Published 02-06-2022Last modified 10-02-2026

Vulnerability summary

USN-5459-1 is a vulnerability in cifs-utils Ubuntu with no CVSS score yet.

Overall risk
0/100
0100
Minimal · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
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010
No CVSS score recorded
EPSS score
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KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 4 · Downstream 0 · Related 4

Timeline

  1. 02-06-2022
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 10-02-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

cifs-utils vulnerabilities Aurélien Aptel discovered that cifs-utils invoked a shell when requesting a password. In certain environments, a local attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-14342) It was discovered that cifs-utils incorrectly used host credentials when mounting a krb5 CIFS file system from within a container. An attacker inside a container could possibly use this issue to obtain access to sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-20208) It was discovered that cifs-utils incorrectly handled certain command-line arguments. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain root privileges. (CVE-2022-27239) It was discovered that cifs-utils incorrectly handled verbose logging. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2022-29869)

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Public exploits

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Weaknesses

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Affected systems

Ubuntu1 product
  • cifs-utils< 2:6.8-1ubuntu1.2 | < 2:6.9-1ubuntu0.2 | < 2:6.14-1ubuntu0.1

1 vendor · 1 product

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