# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-52944"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-24T09:59:09.149Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-14T11:58:26.890Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-52944"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-52944.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-52944"
title: "ksmbd: fix FSCTL permission bypass by adding a permission check for FSCTL_SET_SPARSE"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: fix FSCTL permission bypass by adding a permission check for FSCTL_SET_SPARSE\n\nFSCTL_SET_SPARSE in fsctl_set_sparse() modifies the file's sparse\nattribute and saves it through xattr without any permission checks.\n\nThis exposes two issues:\n\n1) A client on a read-only share can change the sparse attribute\n   on files it opened, even though the share is read-only.\n   Other FSCTL write operations already check\n   test_tree_conn_flag(work-\u003etcon, KSMBD_TREE_CONN_FLAG_WRITABLE),\n   but FSCTL_SET_SPARSE does not.\n\n2) Even on writable shares, clients without FILE_WRITE_DATA or\n   FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES access should not modify the sparse\n   attribute. Similar handle-level checks exist in other functions\n   but are missing here.\n\nAdd both share-level writable check and per-handle access check.\nUse goto out on error to avoid leaking file references."
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