CVE-2022-29869

Publication date 28 April 2022

Last updated 7 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.3 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
cifs-utils 25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed in 2:6.14-1ubuntu0.1
21.10 impish
Fixed in 2:6.11-3.1ubuntu0.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed in 2:6.9-1ubuntu0.2
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed in 2:6.8-1ubuntu1.2
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed in 2:6.4-1ubuntu1.1+esm1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed in 2:6.0-1ubuntu2+esm1

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Patch details

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Package Patch details
cifs-utils

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.3 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-5459-1
    • cifs-utils vulnerabilities
    • 2 June 2022
    • USN-7688-1
    • cifs-utils vulnerabilities
    • 7 August 2025

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