Ubuntu Security Notice 5459-1 - Aurélien Aptel discovered that cifs-utils invoked a shell when requesting a password. In certain environments, a local attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. It was discovered that cifs-utils incorrectly used host credentials when mounting a krb5 CIFS file system from within a container. An attacker inside a container could possibly use this issue to obtain access to sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
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