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CVE-2017-7494

Samba Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Exploited in the wild

This vulnerability is on a Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, added 2023-03-30. Federal due date: 2023-04-20.

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Public exploit code

Working exploit or proof of concept code has been published for this vulnerability. Treat unpatched systems as at risk.

Impact

Samba since version 3.5.0 and before 4.6.4, 4.5.10 and 4.4.14 is vulnerable to remote code execution vulnerability, allowing a malicious client to upload a shared library to a writable share, and then cause the server to load and execute it.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
SambaSamba
from 3.5.0 before 4.4.0
from 4.4.0 before 4.4.14
from 4.5.0 before 4.5.10
from 4.6.0 before 4.6.4
DebianDebian Linux
Version 8.0

Weakness classification

CWE-94

References