CWE-421
Race Condition During Access to Alternate Channel
The product opens an alternate channel to communicate with an authorized user, but the channel is accessible to other actors.
CVE-2023-32256 (GCVE-0-2023-32256)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-01 17:37
Modified
2025-08-01 19:19
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VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-421 - Race Condition During Access to Alternate Channel
Summary
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ksmbd component. A race condition between smb2 close operation and logoff in multichannel connections could result in a use-after-free issue.
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No mitigation information available for this CWE.
No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.