CVE-2021-44141

Summary

CVECVE-2021-44141
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-02-21 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-09-17 09:15:00 UTC
DescriptionAll versions of Samba prior to 4.15.5 are vulnerable to a malicious client using a server symlink to determine if a file or directory exists in an area of the server file system not exported under the share definition. SMB1 with unix extensions has to be enabled in order for this attack to succeed.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-59

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 35 All All All
Application Redhat Storage 3.0 All All All
Application Samba Samba All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Samba: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202309-06) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Samba - Security Announcement Archive MISC www.samba.org Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159828 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for samba (ELSA-2022-2074)
  • 182973 Debian Security Update for samba (CVE-2021-44141)
  • 240286 Red Hat Update for samba security (RHSA-2022:1756)
  • 240314 Red Hat Update for samba security (RHSA-2022:2074)
  • 282312 Fedora Security Update for samba (FEDORA-2022-50da406d40)
  • 282317 Fedora Security Update for samba (FEDORA-2022-055efdd9dc)
  • 354310 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for samba : ALAS2022-2022-022
  • 354496 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for samba : ALAS2022-2022-224
  • 354550 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for samba : ALAS-2022-224
  • 502028 Alpine Linux Security Update for samba
  • 503812 Alpine Linux Security Update for samba
  • 690784 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for samba (8579074c-839f-11ec-a3b2-005056a311d1)
  • 710751 Gentoo Linux Samba Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202309-06)
  • 751680 OpenSUSE Security Update for samba (openSUSE-SU-2022:0283-1)
  • 751683 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for samba (SUSE-SU-2022:0323-1)
  • 751994 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for samba (SUSE-SU-2022:0283-1)
  • 901502 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for samba (8610)
  • 940520 AlmaLinux Security Update for samba (ALSA-2022:2074)
  • 960130 Rocky Linux Security Update for samba (RLSA-2022:2074)
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