Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource Affecting samba-devel package, versions <4.15.13+git.808.eeca19f5e1-150400.3.52.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-SAMBADEVEL-18385941
  • published29 Jul 2026
  • disclosed28 Jul 2026

Introduced: 28 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-15779  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-732  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 samba-devel to version 4.15.13+git.808.eeca19f5e1-150400.3.52.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream samba-devel package and not the samba-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.4 relevant fixed versions and status.

A flaw was found in samba's pam_winbind. When mkhomedir is enabled, pam_winbind chowns the target account's home directory without validating the path is not a critical system directory such as /. On affected systems, accounts with / as their home directory (a common default for system accounts) can have this triggered not only by root, but by a non-root user holding a narrow sudo delegation to run commands as that account, causing ownership of / to change and resulting in severe denial of service (SSH, sudo, and package-manager failures). The change does not grant write access to / (which ships with restrictive 0555 permissions on RHEL), so the impact is availability loss rather than further privilege escalation.

CVSS Base Scores

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