{"cve":"CVE-2026-64137","nvd":{"published":"2026-07-19T16:17:55.570","modified":"2026-08-13T15:08:23.060","status":"Analyzed","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: client: require net admin for CIFS SWN netlink\n\nCIFS_GENL_CMD_SWN_NOTIFY is the userspace witness-notify command.  The\nintended sender is the cifs.witness helper, but the generic-netlink\noperation currently has no capability flag, so any local process can send\nRESOURCE_CHANGE or CLIENT_MOVE notifications to the in-kernel witness\nhandler.\n\nThe same family exposes CIFS_GENL_MCGRP_SWN without multicast-group\ncapability flags.  Register messages sent to that group include the witness\nregistration id and, for NTLM-authenticated mounts, the username, domain,\nand password attributes copied from the CIFS session.  An unprivileged\nlocal process should not be able to join that group and receive those\nmessages.\n\nRequire CAP_NET_ADMIN for incoming SWN_NOTIFY commands with\nGENL_ADMIN_PERM, and require CAP_NET_ADMIN over the network namespace for\njoining the SWN multicast group with GENL_MCAST_CAP_NET_ADMIN.  The\ncifs.witness service runs with the privileges needed for both operations.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":7.8},"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/969bc6370334a5b4720c5470783295d6484bbc95","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9919021a3b7974ae66a5f9915e3a48c10cfd409b","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9cf7eb8919344932f909b2fac76296f7656fda8d","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3238b09c58f323e40743ce174cd0ab81b5c09ed","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8d17d22db591099519a89f14dd24810daba74c3"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:45:36.895656543+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-64137","score":0.00129,"percentile":0.02533,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}