CVE-2022-3592 (GCVE-0-2022-3592)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-01-12 00:00
Modified
2025-04-08 15:14
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-61 - - UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
Summary
A symlink following vulnerability was found in Samba, where a user can create a symbolic link that will make 'smbd' escape the configured share path. This flaw allows a remote user with access to the exported part of the file system under a share via SMB1 unix extensions or NFS to create symlinks to files outside the 'smbd' configured share path and gain access to another restricted server's filesystem.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a samba Version: Affects samba since 4.17.0, Fixed samba 4.17.2.
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