Description
All versions of Samba prior to 4.15.5 are vulnerable to a malicious client using a server symlink to determine if a file or directory exists in an area of the server file system not exported under the share definition. SMB1 with unix extensions has to be enabled in order for this attack to succeed.
Published: 2022-02-21
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-30994 All versions of Samba prior to 4.15.5 are vulnerable to a malicious client using a server symlink to determine if a file or directory exists in an area of the server file system not exported under the share definition. SMB1 with unix extensions has to be enabled in order for this attack to succeed.
History

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00242}

epss

{'score': 0.00228}


Subscriptions

Fedoraproject Fedora
Redhat Enterprise Linux Storage
Samba Samba
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T04:17:24.346Z

Reserved: 2021-11-22T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-44141

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-02-21T18:15:08.493

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:30:25.493

Link: CVE-2021-44141

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2022-01-31T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-44141 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses