CVE-2009-2948

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

07/10/2009

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

mount.cifs in Samba 3.0 before 3.0.37, 3.2 before 3.2.15, 3.3 before 3.3.8 and 3.4 before 3.4.2, when mount.cifs is installed suid root, does not properly enforce permissions, which allows local users to read part of the credentials file and obtain the password by specifying the path to the credentials file and using the --verbose or -v option.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 1.90 LOW
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

1.90

Severity 2.0

LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba::::::::	3.0.0 (including)	3.0.37 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba::::::::	3.2.0 (including)	3.2.15 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba::::::::	3.3.0 (including)	3.3.8 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba::::::::	3.4.0 (including)	3.4.2 (excluding)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2009-2948

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools