CVE-2023-4091

Publication date 10 October 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
samba 24.10 oracular
Fixed 2:4.18.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.1
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 2:4.18.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.1
23.10 mantic
Fixed 2:4.18.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.1
23.04 lunar
Fixed 2:4.17.7+dfsg-1ubuntu2.3
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2:4.15.13+dfsg-0ubuntu1.5
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2:4.15.13+dfsg-0ubuntu0.20.04.6
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of ESM support, was needs-triage

Notes

mdeslaur

only vulnerable when using non-default configuraton: acl_xattr:ignore system acls = yes

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact High
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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