MinorCritical vulnerability
CVE-2026-104715 (CVSS 7.8)
NVD · officialPublished Oct 16, 2026Risk 23/100EPSS 0.1%
A flaw was found in cifs-utils. This flaw allows an unprivileged local user to achieve privilege escalation. When a privileged service mounts a Common Internet File System (CIFS) share using a user-controlled credentials file, input values are not properly sanitized before being assembled into mount options. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability to inject unauthorized mount options, allowing them to bypass permission checks and execute files with administrative (root) privileges.
Technical details
CVSS
7.8
AV:LocalAC:LowPR:LowUI:NoneC:HighI:HighA:High
Evidence and sources
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