CVE-2015-5252
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.2 · CWE-264
7.2CVSS HIGH
Summary
vfs.c in smbd in Samba 3.x and 4.x before 4.1.22, 4.2.x before 4.2.7, and 4.3.x before 4.3.3, when share names with certain substring relationships exist, allows remote attackers to bypass intended file-access restrictions via a symlink that points outside of a share.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactLow
Integrity impactLow
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)13%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174076.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174391.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00019.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00020.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00032.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00033.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00002.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00017.htmlAdvisory