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CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Samba Remote Code Execution Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV
2023-03-30
Remediation due
2023-04-20
Ransomware
Known use

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2017-7494.html; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7494

Description

Samba since version 3.5.0 and before 4.6.4, 4.5.10 and 4.4.14 is vulnerable to remote code execution vulnerability, allowing a malicious client to upload a shared library to a writable share, and then cause the server to load and execute it.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC · CISA-ADP
Exploitationactive
Automatableyes
Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

VendorProductAffected versions
Sambasamba
since 3.5.0

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