There are 2 open security issues in buster.
1 important issue:
- CVE-2021-20208:
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.
1 issue left for the package maintainer to handle:
- CVE-2020-14342:
(needs triaging)
It was found that cifs-utils' mount.cifs was invoking a shell when requesting the Samba password, which could be used to inject arbitrary commands. An attacker able to invoke mount.cifs with special permission, such as via sudo rules, could use this flaw to escalate their privileges.
You can find information about how to handle this issue in the security team's documentation.
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