CVE-2010-0926

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    CVE-2010-0926

    Published: 10 Mar 2010Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: The default configuration of smbd in Samba before 3.3.11, 3.4.x before 3.4.6, and 3.5.x before 3.5.0rc3, when a writable share exists, allows remote authenticated users to leverage a directory traversal vulnerability, and access arbitrary files, by using the symlink command in smbclient to create a symlink containing .. (dot dot) sequences, related to the combination of the unix extensions and wide links options.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/39317, http://www.samba.org/samba/news/symlink_attack.html, http://blog.metasploit.com/2010/02/exploiting-samba-symlink-traversal.html, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=562568, https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7104, http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-02/0083.html, http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-02/0107.html, http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-02/0108.html, http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=samba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=bd269443e311d96ef495a9db47d1b95eb83bb8f4, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-04/msg00001.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html, http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=126538598820903&w=2, http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126539592603079&w=2, http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126540402215620&w=2, http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126540733320471&w=2, http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126545363428745&w=2, http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126777580624790&w=2, http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126539387432412&w=2, http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126540011609753&w=2, http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126540100511357&w=2, http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126540248613395&w=2, http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126540277713815&w=2, http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126540290614053&w=2, http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126540376915283&w=2, http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126540475116511&w=2, http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126540477016522&w=2, http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126540539117328&w=2, http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126540608318301&w=2, http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126540695819735&w=2, http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126547903723628&w=2, http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126548356728379&w=2, http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126549111204428&w=2, http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126555346721629&w=2, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/02/06/3, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/03/05/3

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High