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medium 5.3

CVE-2022-29869 json

cifs-utils through 6.14, with verbose logging, can cause an information leak when a file contains = (equal sign) characters but is not a va…

published 2022-04-28 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-34181

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.9%
EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 80%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • samba cifs-utils 6.15
  • cifs-utils Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2:6.14-1.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-29869

  • cifs-utils Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 2:6.8-1ubuntu1.2
  • cifs-utils Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 2:6.9-1ubuntu0.2
  • cifs-utils Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 2:6.14-1ubuntu0.1
  • cifs-utils Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 2:6.0-1ubuntu2+esm1
  • cifs-utils Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 2:6.4-1ubuntu1.1+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-29869

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • cifs-utils SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP4, SLE Micro 5.3, openSUSE Leap 15.4 6.15-150400.3.9.1
  • cifs-utils SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 6.9-13.23.1
  • cifs-utils SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP3, SLE Micro 5.2, openSUSE Leap 15.3 6.9-150100.5.18.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:3525-1SUSE-SU-2022:2802-1SUSE-SU-2022:2801-1

  • cifs-utils openSUSE Leap Micro 5.2 6.9-150100.5.18.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2022:2801-1

  • cifs-utils Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +6 more 6.15-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2022-29869

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • cifs-utils CBL-Mariner 2.0 6.14-2

azure linux advisories AZL-9588

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-29869 updated cvss 4.3

cifs-utils: crafted input may cause an information leak

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 cifs-utils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 cifs-utils
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 cifs-utils, pam_cifscreds Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 cifs-utils, pam_cifscreds
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.92% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.