CVE-2022-3592 Information

Description

A symlink following vulnerability was found in Samba where a user can create a symbolic link that will make ‘smbd’ escape the configured share path. This flaw allows a remote user with access to the exported part of the file system under a share via SMB1 unix extensions or NFS to create symlinks to files outside the ‘smbd’ configured share path and gain access to another restricted server’s filesystem.

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3592 https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2022-3592.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2137776