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CVE-2021-43566

LOW CVSS: 2.5 Published: 2022-01-11 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

All versions of Samba prior to 4.13.16 are vulnerable to a malicious client using an SMB1 or NFS race to allow a directory to be created in an area of the server file system not exported under the share definition. Note that SMB1 has to be enabled, or the share also available via NFS in order for this attack to succeed.

Affected Platforms

Samba Samba

Weakness Type

CWE-362

References