CVE-2022-3592 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

A symlink following vulnerability was found in Samba, where a user can create a symbolic link that will make 'smbd' escape the configured share path. This flaw allows a remote user with access to the exported part of the file system under a share via SMB1 unix extensions or NFS to create symlinks to files outside the 'smbd' configured share path and gain access to another restricted server's filesystem.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00473.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Fedoraproject	Fedora
Samba	Samba

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:::::::*

No data.

No data.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3592
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2137776
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3592
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-06
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3592
https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2022-3592.html

History

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2023-01-12T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-08T15:14:28.686Z

Reserved: 2022-10-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-3592

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:14:02.492Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-01-12T15:15:10.273

Modified: 2025-04-08T16:15:23.333

Link: CVE-2022-3592

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2022-10-25T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-3592 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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