CVE-2015-7560

medium
Published 2016-03-13 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
VIR risk
6.5

Description

The SMB1 implementation in smbd in Samba 3.x and 4.x before 4.1.23, 4.2.x before 4.2.9, 4.3.x before 4.3.6, and 4.4.x before 4.4.0rc4 allows remote authenticated users to modify arbitrary ACLs by using a UNIX SMB1 call to create a symlink, and then using a non-UNIX SMB1 call to write to the ACL content.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.10affected
debian debianbookwormfixed2:4.3.6+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2:4.3.6+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed2:4.3.6+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed2:4.3.6+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2:4.3.6+dfsg-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
sambasamba{"startIncluding":"3.2.0","endExcluding":"4.1.23"}4.1.23
sambasamba4.4.0

References

CWEs

CWE-284

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Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.