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CVE-2022-3592

samba: wide links protection broken

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.4

CVSS 3.1

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Published · October 25, 2022

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A 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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.4
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

CWE-61 · UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following