Access Restriction Bypass Affecting samba package, versions [,3.0.37)[3.2.0,3.2.15)[3.3.0,3.3.8)[3.4.0,3.4.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.59% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SAMBA-2370433
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Oct 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Oct 2009

CVE-2009-2948  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade samba to version 3.0.37, 3.2.15, 3.3.8, 3.4.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass mount.cifs in Samba 3.0 before 3.0.37, 3.2 before 3.2.15, 3.3 before 3.3.8 and 3.4 before 3.4.2, when mount.cifs is installed suid root, does not properly enforce permissions, which allows local users to read part of the credentials file and obtain the password by specifying the path to the credentials file and using the --verbose or -v option.

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CVSS Scores

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