# 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-2026-64400"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-25T08:50:43.655Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:43:22.216Z"
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-2026-64400"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64400.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64400"
title: "ksmbd: prevent path traversal bypass by restricting caseless retry"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: prevent path traversal bypass by restricting caseless retry\n\nksmbd_vfs_path_lookup() enforces LOOKUP_BENEATH to restrict path\nresolution within the share root. When a crafted path attempts to\nescape the share boundary using parent-directory components ('..'),\nvfs_path_parent_lookup() detects this and immediately fails,\nreturning -EXDEV.\n\nHowever, a bug exists in __ksmbd_vfs_kern_path() under caseless mode.\nThe function fails to intercept the -EXDEV error and erroneously\nfalls through to the caseless retry logic, which is intended only\nfor genuinely missing files. During this retry process, the path\nis reconstructed, leading to an unintended LOOKUP_BENEATH bypass\nthat allows write-capable users to create zero-length files or\ndirectories outside the exported share.\n\nFix this by ensuring that the execution only proceeds to the caseless\nlookup retry when the error is specifically -ENOENT. Any other errors,\nsuch as -EXDEV from a path traversal attempt, must be returned immediately."
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