CVE-2026-97561

smb: client: honor forceuid/forcegid when mapping SIDs to uid/gid

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 25, 2026
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
Reserved
Sep 24, 2026

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Description

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

smb: client: honor forceuid/forcegid when mapping SIDs to uid/gid

When the administrator mounts with forceuid or forcegid (uid=/gid= mount options), they expect all files to appear owned by the specified user/group. However, several code paths unconditionally called sid_to_id() to overwrite cf_uid/cf_gid with server-provided values, ignoring the administrator's explicit override:

- smb311_posix_info_to_fattr() (stat via POSIX extensions) - cifs_posix_to_fattr() (readdir via POSIX extensions) - parse_sec_desc() (CIFS ACL ownership mapping)

This allowed an untrusted server to dictate local file ownership even when the mount was configured to force specific uid/gid values.

Fix all three call sites to check CIFS_MOUNT_OVERR_UID and CIFS_MOUNT_OVERR_GID before calling sid_to_id(), following the same pattern already used by cifs_unix_basic_to_fattr() for unix extensions.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 9409ae58e0759d010b347e7b19ebc90ab5d4b98f to before 89a3b4704af2208e381c55037ff2d1e2365b83e4Affected
  • 9409ae58e0759d010b347e7b19ebc90ab5d4b98f to before be6eccccec867c22d7c65fab4ea4e91ec3d5b8c6Affected
  • 9409ae58e0759d010b347e7b19ebc90ab5d4b98f to before bc35de451c128d399ad185d6269f8847e97cd1c9Affected
  • 9409ae58e0759d010b347e7b19ebc90ab5d4b98f to before 6ac7a29691558bed18e2df1780636b8aa0fd13d5Affected
  • 9409ae58e0759d010b347e7b19ebc90ab5d4b98f to before e1b74f8f8c1d13190b09fe623b729d36b7ac22a8Affected
  • 9409ae58e0759d010b347e7b19ebc90ab5d4b98f to before 18a72975e9f35aadecc75b031f693f2d1f49308fAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.0Affected
  • before 3.0Not affected
  • 6.1.191 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.160 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.114 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.57 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.7 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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