CVE-2015-7560
MEDIUMEPSS 96th pctlDescription
The SMB1 implementation in smbd in Samba 3.x and 4.x before 4.1.23, 4.2.x before 4.2.9, 4.3.x before 4.3.6, and 4.4.x before 4.4.0rc4 allows remote authenticated users to modify arbitrary ACLs by using a UNIX SMB1 call to create a symlink, and then using a non-UNIX SMB1 call to write to the ACL content.
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 96% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178730.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178764.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/180000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00063.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00064.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00065.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00081.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00090.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00092.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00042.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00047.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00048.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3514
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84267
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035220
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2922-1
- https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11648
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05121842
- https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2015-7560.html
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