CVE-2026-46243 CIFSwitch: CIFS Upcall Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerability

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

A local privilege escalation vulnerability known as CIFSwitch was publicly disclosed affecting the Linux kernel CIFS/SMB client interaction with cifs-utils.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • cifs, cifs-utils

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