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CVE-2015-7560
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…
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 12.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 12.9% · top 3.7% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
19
- 84267 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1064 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:0837 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:0813 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:0877 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05121842 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1035220 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-cad77a4576 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:0814 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2015-7560.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11648 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1106 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-4b55f00d00 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-ed1587f6ba (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1107 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:0905 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:0816 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-2922-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- DSA-3514 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-7472 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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