# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64137"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T15:40:31.045Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:39:38.366Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-64137"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64137.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64137"
title: "smb: client: require net admin for CIFS SWN netlink"
summary: "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."
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