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CVE-2009-2948

CVE information

Published

14 years ago

Last Modified

1 year ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Low

Impact Analysis

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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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Low
Base Score
1.9/10
Exploit Score
3.4/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
2.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
Partial
Availability Impact
None
Integrity Impact
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
3.4.0 3.4.2
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
3.3.0 3.3.8
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
3.2.0 3.2.15
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
3.0.0 3.0.37

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