CVE-2011-2522

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Summary

CVECVE-2011-2522
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2011-07-29 20:55:02 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionMultiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT) in Samba 3.x before 3.5.10 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) shut down daemons, (2) start daemons, (3) add shares, (4) remove shares, (5) add printers, (6) remove printers, (7) add user accounts, or (8) remove user accounts, as demonstrated by certain start, stop, and restart parameters to the status program.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.8 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-352 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

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

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Samba Samba All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Samba SWAT Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
SecurityTracker: Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT) Input Validation Flaws Permit Cross-Site Request Forgery and Cross-Site Scripting Attacks af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Samba Web Administration Tool Cross-Site Request Forgery +PoC - CXSecurity.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com Third Party Advisory
Samba - Security Announcement Archive af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.samba.org Vendor Advisory
JVN#29529126: Samba Web Administration Tool vulnerable to cross-site request forgery af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 jvn.jp Third Party Advisory
Ubuntu update for samba - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
mandriva.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com Broken Link
USN-1182-1: Samba vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
SWAT Samba Web Administration Tool Cross-Site Request Forgery PoC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.exploit-db.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Bug 8290 – CSRF vulnerability in SWAT; CVE-2011-2522 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.samba.org Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
osvdb.org/74071 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org Broken Link
Samba - Release Notes Archive af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 samba.org Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2290-1 samba af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Bug 721348 – CVE-2011-2522 samba (SWAT): Absent CSRF protection in various Samba web configuration formulars af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
'[security bulletin] HPSBUX02768 SSRT100664 rev.1 - CIFS Server (Samba), Remote Cross Site Request Fo' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Debian update for samba - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
www.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.itrc.hp.com Broken Link
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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