CVE-2021-20208

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20208.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-20208

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed6.13-1
debian debianbookwormfixed2:6.11-3
debian debianbullseyefixed2:6.11-3
debian debianforkyfixed2:6.11-3
debian debiansidfixed2:6.11-3
debian debiantrixiefixed2:6.11-3
suse slesaffected

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.