Veracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:24124Privilege Escalation
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
20.3%
kernel is vulnerable to privilege escalation. A flaw was found in the dns_resolver upcall used by CIFS. A local, unprivileged user could redirect a Microsoft Distributed File System link to another IP address, tricking the client into mounting the share from a server of the user’s choosing.
References
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