CVE-2015-5252

samba: Insufficient symlink verification in smbd

Published Dec 29, 2015 CVSS 3.1 · 7.2 High EPSS 13.3% KEV · Not listed
Description
vfs.c in smbd in Samba 3.x and 4.x before 4.1.22, 4.2.x before 4.2.7, and 4.3.x before 4.3.3, when share names with certain substring relationships exist, allows remote attackers to bypass intended file-access restrictions via a symlink that points outside of a share.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-379-1 samba security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3433-1 samba security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3514-1 samba security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2855-1 Samba vulnerabilities
References
Link Providers
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174076.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174391.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00019.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00020.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00032.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00033.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00002.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00017.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00042.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00046.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00047.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00048.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3433 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79733 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034493 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2855-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2855-2 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1290288 cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4278ef25f64d5fdbf432ff1534e275416ec9561e cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05115993 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5252 cve-icon
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-47 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5252 cve-icon
https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2015-5252.html cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.23957}

epss

{'score': 0.15999}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 6:41 AM
Reserved
Jul 1, 2015, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Dec 29, 2015, 10:59 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 12:28 AM
Severity
Low
Public date
Dec 16, 2015, 12:00 AM