CVE-2009-2948

published 2009-10-07

CVE-2009-2948: 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…

Priority P4 9 low 1.9 CVSS 2.0

AV L AC M Au N C P I N A N

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.

Affected

9 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	samba	< samba 2:3.4.2-1 (bookworm)	samba 2:3.4.2-1 (bookworm)
samba	samba	>= 0 < 2:3.4.2-1	2:3.4.2-1
samba	samba	>= 0 < 2:3.4.2-1	2:3.4.2-1
samba	samba	>= 0 < 2:3.4.2-1	2:3.4.2-1
samba	samba	>= 0 < 2:3.4.2-1	2:3.4.2-1
samba	samba	>= 3.0.0 < 3.0.37	3.0.37
samba	samba	>= 3.2.0 < 3.2.15	3.2.15
samba	samba	>= 3.3.0 < 3.3.8	3.3.8
samba	samba	>= 3.4.0 < 3.4.2	3.4.2

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 1.9 LOW AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

osv 1.9 LOW

vendor_ubuntu 9.3 CRITICAL

vendor_debian 1.9 MEDIUM

vendor_redhat 1.9 LOW

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