# 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-2026-97564"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:21:51.858Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:09:27.178Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-97564"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97564.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97564"
title: "smb: client: reject userspace cifs.idmap descriptions"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: client: reject userspace cifs.idmap descriptions\n\ncifs.idmap key descriptions carry authority-bearing fields (owner and\ngroup SIDs and uid/gid values in \"os:\"/\"gs:\"/\"oi:\"/\"gi:\" form) that the\ncifs.idmap upcall helper treats as kernel-originating inputs.  Unlike\nits sibling cifs.spnego, the cifs.idmap key type has no vet_description\nhook, so userspace can create keys of this type through\nrequest_key(2)/add_key(2) and supply those fields without CIFS origin.\nA request_key(2) call with a non-NULL callout then drives a root\nusermodehelper upcall (/sbin/request-key -\u003e cifs.idmap) that consumes\nthe unvetted description in root context.\n\nOnly accept cifs.idmap descriptions while CIFS is using its private\nroot_cred to request the key.  id_to_sid()/sid_to_id() already run\nunder override_creds(root_cred), so the kernel-originated path is\nunaffected.\n\nThis mirrors commit 3da1fdf4efbc (\"smb: client: reject userspace\ncifs.spnego descriptions\"), which applied the same restriction to\ncifs.spnego."
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