Access Restriction Bypass Affecting samba package, versions <2:3.2.3-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-SAMBA-516781
  • published27 Aug 2008
  • disclosed27 Aug 2008

Introduced: 27 Aug 2008

CVE-2008-3789  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 samba to version 2:3.2.3-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream samba package and not the samba package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

Samba 3.2.0 uses weak permissions (0666) for the (1) group_mapping.tdb and (2) group_mapping.ldb files, which allows local users to modify the membership of Unix groups.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1