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CVE-2022-3592 — A symlink following vulnerability was found in Samba, where a user can create a

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 extension

CVSS
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EPSS
0.83% (top 25.70%)
CWE
CWE-61
Published
2023-01-12T00:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2025-04-08T15:14:28.686Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

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…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
na / sambaAffects samba since 4.17.0, Fixed samba 4.17.2.

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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