CVE-2026-31392

| EUVD-2026-18766
2026-04-03 Linux GHSA-h833-487p-56g8

Lifecycle Timeline

3
Analysis Generated
Apr 03, 2026 - 15:30 vuln.today
EUVD ID Assigned
Apr 03, 2026 - 15:30 euvd
EUVD-2026-18766
CVE Published
Apr 03, 2026 - 15:15 nvd
N/A

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix krb5 mount with username option Customer reported that some of their krb5 mounts were failing against a single server as the client was trying to mount the shares with wrong credentials. It turned out the client was reusing SMB session from first mount to try mounting the other shares, even though a different username= option had been specified to the other mounts. By using username mount option along with sec=krb5 to search for principals from keytab is supported by cifs.upcall(8) since cifs-utils-4.8. So fix this by matching username mount option in match_session() even with Kerberos. For example, the second mount below should fail with -ENOKEY as there is no 'foobar' principal in keytab (/etc/krb5.keytab). The client ends up reusing SMB session from first mount to perform the second one, which is wrong. ``` $ ktutil ktutil: add_entry -password -p testuser -k 1 -e aes256-cts Password for [email protected]: ktutil: write_kt /etc/krb5.keytab ktutil: quit $ klist -ke Keytab name: FILE:/etc/krb5.keytab KVNO Principal ---- ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1 [email protected] (aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96) $ mount.cifs //w22-root2/scratch /mnt/1 -o sec=krb5,username=testuser $ mount.cifs //w22-root2/scratch /mnt/2 -o sec=krb5,username=foobar $ mount -t cifs | grep -Po 'username=\K\w+' testuser testuser ```

Analysis

Linux kernel SMB client incorrectly reuses Kerberos authentication sessions across multiple mounts with different username options, allowing an attacker or misconfigured system to access shares using unintended credentials. The vulnerability affects CIFS/SMB mounting with Kerberos (sec=krb5) when the username mount option is specified; the kernel fails to validate that the username parameter matches the authenticated session, causing subsequent mounts to inherit the first mount's credentials rather than failing with ENOKEY when the requested principal is absent from the keytab. …

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