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CVE-2015-7560

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-7560 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting the SMB1 implementation in Samba versions 3.x and 4.x, including various distributions of Debian and Ubuntu Linux. It allows remote authenticated users to modify arbitrary Access Control Lists (ACLs) by chaining a UNIX SMB1 symlink creation with a non-UNIX SMB1 ACL write. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and requiring low privileges, leading to a high impact on integrity but no impact on confidentiality or availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 3.2.0, < 4.1.23CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.2.0, < 4.2.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.3.0, < 4.3.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:4.4.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:4.4.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
12.94%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1294 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 21,974 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: samba-0:3.6.23-25.el6_7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: samba4-0:4.0.0-68.el6_7.rc4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: samba-0:4.2.3-12.el7_2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: samba-0:4.2.4-15.el6rhs
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 7Fixed in: samba-0:4.2.4-15.el7rhgs
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: samba3x

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-7560Moderate

samba: Incorrect ACL get/set allowed on symlink path

Mar 8, 2016

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178730.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178764.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/180000.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00063.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00064.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00065.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00081.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00090.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00092.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00042.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00047.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00048.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.samba.org / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
h20566.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
Third Party Advisory
samba.org / samba/security/CVE-2015-7560.html
Vendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3514
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/84267
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1035220
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2922-1
Third Party Advisory