CVE-2001-0406 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Samba versions prior to 2.2.0. Attackers can exploit this flaw through a symlink attack, specifically via printer queue queries or the 'more' and 'mput' commands in smbclient, to overwrite arbitrary files on the system. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), indicating local access, low attack complexity, and a potential impact of partial integrity compromise. While there is an ExploitDB entry (EDB-20776) detailing a similar insecure TMP file symbolic link, there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit or Nuclei modules, or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.0.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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