CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-5252

7.2 HIGH Published 2015-12-29 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-12-29
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• samba samba (>= 3.0.0 < 4.1.22) • samba samba (>= 4.2.0 < 4.2.7) • samba samba (>= 4.3.0 < 4.3.3) • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 15.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 15.10 • debian debian linux 7.0 • debian debian linux 8.0

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References