CVE-2023-3961 is a critical path traversal vulnerability in Samba, affecting fedoraproject, redhat, and Samba itself. It allows an unauthenticated attacker to connect as root to Unix domain sockets outside a private directory by sending a specially crafted pipe name containing directory traversal characters. This could lead to unauthorized access, compromise, or service crashes, as indicated by its CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical). While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 14 mentions, suggesting high awareness.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 4.17.12CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 4.18.0, < 4.18.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 4.19.0, < 4.19.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:storage:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.