CVE 8.1 HIGH

smb: client: fix krb5 mount with username option_CVE-2026-31392

8.1 / 10
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smb: client: fix krb5 mount with username option

Customer reported that some of their krb5 mounts were failing against
a single server as the client was trying to mount the shares with
wrong credentials. It turned out the client was reusing SMB session
from first mount to try mounting the other shares, even though a
different username= option had been specified to the other mounts.

By using username mount option along with sec=krb5 to search for
principals from keytab is supported by cifs.upcall(8) since
cifs-utils-4.8. So fix this by matching username mount option in
match_session() even with Kerberos.

For example, the second mount below should fail with -ENOKEY as there
is no 'foobar' principal in keytab (/etc/krb5.keytab). The client
ends up reusing SMB session from first mount to perform the second
one, which is wrong.

```
$ ktutil
ktutil: add_entry -password -p testuser -k 1 -e aes256-cts
Password for [email protected]:
ktutil: write_kt /etc/krb5.keytab
ktutil: quit
$ klist -ke
Keytab name: FILE:/etc/krb5.keytab
KVNO Principal
---- ----------------------------------------------------------------
1 [email protected] (aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96)
$ mount.cifs //w22-root2/scratch /mnt/1 -o sec=krb5,username=testuser
$ mount.cifs //w22-root2/scratch /mnt/2 -o sec=krb5,username=foobar
$ mount -t cifs | grep -Po 'username=\K\w+'
testuser
testuser
```

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-31392
Source Linux
Published Apr 3, 2026 at 15:15
Modified Apr 27, 2026 at 14:02

Affected Product

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Version 4ff67b720c02c36e54d55b88c2931879b7db1cd2
Affected Versions Linux Linux 4ff67b720c02c36e54d55b88c2931879b7db1cd2
Linux Linux 4ff67b720c02c36e54d55b88c2931879b7db1cd2
Linux Linux 4ff67b720c02c36e54d55b88c2931879b7db1cd2
Linux Linux 4ff67b720c02c36e54d55b88c2931879b7db1cd2
Linux Linux 4ff67b720c02c36e54d55b88c2931879b7db1cd2
Linux Linux 4ff67b720c02c36e54d55b88c2931879b7db1cd2
Linux Linux 223c7f082d2836ac719b3b228bdcfab35e5e5330
Linux Linux 88720224330a655ab6268e20109b65b11cfd7f6a
Linux Linux 2.6.36

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