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CVE-2022-29869

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-04-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-532

Description

cifs-utils through 6.14, with verbose logging, can cause an information leak when a file contains = (equal sign) characters but is not a valid credentials file.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0, 10.0, 11.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 34, 35, 36
• samba cifs-utils: before 6.15 — fixed in 6.15

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: samba cifs-utils 6.15. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/piastry/cifs-utils/commit/8acc963a2e7e9d63fe1f2e7f73f5a03f83d9c379
• https://github.com/piastry/cifs-utils/pull/7
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00020.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5WBOLMANBYJILXQKRRK7OCR774PXJAYY/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HXKZLJYJJEC3TIBFLXUORRMZUKG5W676/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QIYZ4L6SLSYJQ446VJAO2VGAESURQNSP/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-05
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5157
• https://github.com/piastry/cifs-utils/commit/8acc963a2e7e9d63fe1f2e7f73f5a03f83d9c379
• https://github.com/piastry/cifs-utils/pull/7
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00020.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5WBOLMANBYJILXQKRRK7OCR774PXJAYY/

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