Medium severity · published Jul 20, 2023
CVE-2023-34968
A path disclosure vulnerability was found in Samba
5.3
CVSS
1.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A path disclosure vulnerability was found in Samba. As part of the Spotlight protocol, Samba discloses the server-side absolute path of shares, files, and directories in the results for search queries. This flaw allows a malicious client or an attacker with a targeted RPC request to view the information that is part of the disclosed path.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.3% · higher than 71% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
11.0; 12.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
37; 38 · source: NVD
SA
Samba · Samba
before 4.16.11; 4.17.0 before 4.17.10; 4.18.0 before 4.18.5 · source: NVD
ST
Storage · Redhat
3.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-34968
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-34968
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6667
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7139
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0423
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0580
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-34968
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2222795
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