CVE-2010-0787

Summary

CVECVE-2010-0787
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2010-03-02 18:30:01 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
Descriptionclient/mount.cifs.c in mount.cifs in smbfs in Samba 3.0.22, 3.0.28a, 3.2.3, 3.3.2, 3.4.0, and 3.4.5 allows local users to mount a CIFS share on an arbitrary mountpoint, and gain privileges, via a symlink attack on the mountpoint directory file.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.4 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-59 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Samba Samba 3.0.22 All All All
Application Samba Samba 3.0.28a All All All
Application Samba Samba 3.2.3 All All All
Application Samba Samba 3.4.0 All All All
Application Samba Samba 3.4.5 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2010:014 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
Bug 558833 – CVE-2009-3297 samba, fuse, ncpfs: Race condition by mount (mount.cifs, ncpmount) / umount (fusermount, ncpumount) operations [Fedora all] af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
Bug 532940 – CVE-2010-0788 ncpfs: Race condition by mount (ncpmount) / umount (ncpumount) operations af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: samba-3.4.5-55.fc12 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
gitweb.samba.org - samba.git/commit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 git.samba.org
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Ubuntu update for samba - Advisories - Community af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
RETIRED: Samba 'mount.cifs' Utility Symlink Attack Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Samba 'mount.cifs' Utility Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Patch
git.samba.org af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 git.samba.org
Fedora update for samba - Advisories - Community af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2010:090 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
USN-893-1: Samba vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: samba-3.4.5-0.47.fc11 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
6853 – mount.cifs race that allows user to replace mountpoint with a symlink; CVE-2010-0787 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.samba.org Patch
Samba "mount.cifs" Race Condition Security Issue - Advisories - Community af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- mount-cifs: Multiple vulnerabilites af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
gitweb.samba.org - samba.git/commit MITRE git.samba.org
git.samba.org - samba.git/commit MITRE git.samba.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2011-08-29Vincent DanenThis issue has been addressed via RHSA-2011:1219 (https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1219.html).

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