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CVE-2022-3592
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.
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Samba | Samba | from 4.17.0 before 4.17.2 |
| Fedoraproject | Fedora | Versions 36, 37 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3592
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2137776
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-06
- https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2022-3592.html
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3592
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2137776
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-06
- https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2022-3592.html