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CVE-2023-4091 — A vulnerability was discovered in Samba, where the flaw allows SMB clients to tr

A vulnerability was discovered in Samba, where the flaw allows SMB clients to truncate files, even with read-only permissions when the Samba VFS module "acl_xattr" is configured with "acl_xattr:ignore system acls = yes". The SMB protocol allows opening files w

CVSS
6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.48% (top 35.40%)
CWE
CWE-276
Published
2023-11-03T07:56:35.611Z
Last modified
2025-11-20T18:27:17.162Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

01What is this vulnerability?

A vulnerability was discovered in Samba, where the flaw allows SMB clients to truncate files, even with read-only permissions when the Samba VFS module "acl_xattr" is configured with "acl_xattr:ignore system acls = yes". The SMB protocol allows opening files when the client requests read-only access but then implicitly truncates the opened file to 0 bytes if the client specifies a separate…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 80:4.18.6-2.el8_9
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 80:4.18.6-2.el8_9
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support0:4.15.5-13.el8_6
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support0:4.17.5-4.el8_8
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 90:4.18.6-101.el9_3
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 90:4.18.6-101.el9_3
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support0:4.15.5-111.el9_0
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support0:4.17.5-104.el9_2
Red HatRed Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 80:4.15.5-13.el8_6
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Storage 3unspecified

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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