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CVE-2023-4091

MEDIUM
6.5CVSS
Published: 2023-11-03
Updated: 2024-11-21
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Description

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 OVERWRITE create disposition request. The issue arises in configurations that bypass kernel file system permissions checks, relying solely on Samba's permissions.

CVSS Metrics

Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack Vector
network
Complexity
low
Privileges
low
User Action
none
Scope
unchanged
Confidentiality
none
Integrity
high
Availability
none
Weaknesses
CWE-276CWE-276

Metadata

Primary Vendor
SAMBA
Published
11/3/2023
Last Modified
11/21/2024
Source
NIST NVD
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Affected Products

samba : sambasamba : sambasamba : sambafedoraproject : fedoraredhat : storageredhat : enterprise_linuxredhat : enterprise_linux_eus

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