Directory traversal vulnerability in CIFS in Linux 2.6.16 and earlier allows local users to escape chroot restrictions for an SMB-mounted…

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in CIFS in Linux 2.6.16 and earlier allows local users to escape chroot restrictions for an SMB-mounted filesystem via "..\\" sequences, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2006-1864.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.0% · top 36% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.1.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (19)

• ADV-2006-2554 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 17742 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• MDKSA-2006:150 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10383 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• ADV-2006-1542 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189434 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• MDKSA-2006:151 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• 21614 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• SUSE-SA:2006:028 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.11 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• DSA-1103 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• RHBA-2007-0304 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 2006-0024 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TRUSTIXx_transferred
• http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=296034f7de8bdf111984ce1630ac598a9c94a253 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 20398 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• kernel-cifs-directory-traversal(26141) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 19868 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 25068 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• 20914 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2006-1863](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2006-1863.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2006-1863)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 17:27 UTC.