CVE-2026-31717 (GCVE-0-2026-31717)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-01 13:56 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:24
VLAI
Title
ksmbd: validate owner of durable handle on reconnect
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: validate owner of durable handle on reconnect Currently, ksmbd does not verify if the user attempting to reconnect to a durable handle is the same user who originally opened the file. This allows any authenticated user to hijack an orphaned durable handle by predicting or brute-forcing the persistent ID. According to MS-SMB2, the server MUST verify that the SecurityContext of the reconnect request matches the SecurityContext associated with the existing open. Add a durable_owner structure to ksmbd_file to store the original opener's UID, GID, and account name. and catpure the owner information when a file handle becomes orphaned. and implementing ksmbd_vfs_compare_durable_owner() to validate the identity of the requester during SMB2_CREATE (DHnC).
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 8df4bcdb0a4232192b2445256c39b787d58ef14d , < 712cdf917e77a6444ce3836874829d770db20ee6 (git)
Affected: c8efcc786146a951091588e5fa7e3c754850cb3c , < c7f0f0d01c88bdcb8b1694d7d321670013f7ed7d (git)
Affected: c8efcc786146a951091588e5fa7e3c754850cb3c , < 00ce8d6789dae72d042a4522264964c72891ca37 (git)
Affected: c8efcc786146a951091588e5fa7e3c754850cb3c , < c908c853f304a4969b5aa10eba0b50350cc65b80 (git)
Affected: c8efcc786146a951091588e5fa7e3c754850cb3c , < 49110a8ce654bbe56bef7c5e44cce31f4b102b8a (git)
Affected: 6.6.32 , < 6.6.142 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.9
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.9 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.142 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.92 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.25 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.2 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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