CVE-2022-3592 is a symlink following vulnerability in Samba that affects Fedora and Samba products. A remote authenticated user can exploit this flaw to create symbolic links, allowing 'smbd' to escape its configured share path and gain unauthorized access to other restricted parts of the server's filesystem. With a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and could lead to high confidentiality impact. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 4.17.0, < 4.17.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
36CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
37CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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