CVE-2011-1585
LOW · CVSS 3.3EPSS 0.5%EU EUVD
The cifs_find_smb_ses function in fs/cifs/connect.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 does not properly determine the associations between users and sessions, which allows local users to bypass CIFS share authentication by leveraging a mount of a share by a different user.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 3.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.5% (43th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-1585)
- Published
- June 8, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-1585 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- linux / linux kernel
- suse / suse linux enterprise server
References
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36(Release Notes, Third Party Advisory)
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4ff67b720c02c36e54d55b88c2931879b7db1cd2
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/15/8(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697394(Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4ff67b720c02c36e54d55b88c2931879b7db1cd2(Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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