PT-2026-55439 · Canonical · Cifs-Utils

Published

2026-07-02

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Updated

2026-07-02

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It was discovered that cifs-utils incorrectly dropped root privileges before looking up user information. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code as the root user.
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Related Identifiers

USN-8496-1

Affected Products

Cifs-Utils