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mount.cifs in Samba 3.0 before 3.0.37, 3.2 before 3.2.15,...

Low severity Unreviewed Published May 2, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 30, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

mount.cifs in Samba 3.0 before 3.0.37, 3.2 before 3.2.15, 3.3 before 3.3.8 and 3.4 before 3.4.2, when mount.cifs is installed suid root, does not properly enforce permissions, which allows local users to read part of the credentials file and obtain the password by specifying the path to the credentials file and using the --verbose or -v option.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 7, 2009
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 2, 2022
Last updated Jan 30, 2023

Severity

Low

EPSS score

0.080%
(36th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2009-2948

GHSA ID

GHSA-fwxv-68qg-w737

Source code

No known source code

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