CVE-2010-0787

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-03-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

client/mount.cifs.c in mount.cifs in smbfs in Samba 3.0.22, 3.0.28a, 3.2.3, 3.3.2, 3.4.0, and 3.4.5 allows local users to mount a CIFS share on an arbitrary mountpoint, and gain privileges, via a symlink attack on the mountpoint directory file.

Affected products

Samba: 3.0.22, 3.0.28a, 3.2.3, 3.4.0, 3.4.5

References

http://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3ae5dac462c4ed0fb2cd94553583c56fce2f9d80
http://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a0c31ec1c8d1220a5884e40d9ba6b191a04a24d5
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/034444.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/034470.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/38286
http://secunia.com/advisories/38308
http://secunia.com/advisories/38357
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-29.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:090
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37992
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39898

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