CVE-2022-3592

Summary

CVECVE-2022-3592
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-01-12 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-09-17 09:15:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-59

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 36 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 37 All All All
Application Samba Samba All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Samba: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202309-06) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
2137776 – (CVE-2022-3592) CVE-2022-3592 samba: wide links protection broken MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
Samba - Security Announcement Archive MISC www.samba.org
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MISC access.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 283246 Fedora Security Update for samba (FEDORA-2022-3dcb5a3785)
  • 283455 Fedora Security Update for samba (FEDORA-2022-8a9a568dbe)
  • 355336 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for samba : ALAS2023-2023-032
  • 502620 Alpine Linux Security Update for samba
  • 502790 Alpine Linux Security Update for samba
  • 503810 Alpine Linux Security Update for samba
  • 710751 Gentoo Linux Samba Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202309-06)
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