CVE-2017-2619
Samba before versions 4.6.1, 4.5.7 and 4.4.11 are vulnerable to a malicious client using a symlink race to allow access to areas of the…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 11.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 4.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Samba before versions 4.6.1, 4.5.7 and 4.4.11 are vulnerable to a malicious client using a symlink race to allow access to areas of the server file system not exported under the share definition.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Samba 4.5.2 - Symlink Race Permits Opening Files Outside Share Directory (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 41740remote, multiplepublished 27 Mar 2017Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 41740 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 16 months later
· 16 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 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 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 11.0% · top 4.1% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
References
11
- RHSA-2017:2778 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-3816 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 97033 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 41740 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 1038117 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2338 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2017-2619.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1429472 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:1265 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2789 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbns03755en_us (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2017-11780 (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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