CVE-2015-5299

Public on 2015-12-29

Modified on 2016-01-18

Description

A missing access control flaw was found in Samba. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to view the current snapshot on a Samba share, despite not having DIRECTORY_LIST access rights.

Severity

Medium

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CVSS v3 Base Score

3.5

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Affected Packages

Platform	Package	Release Date	Advisory
Amazon Linux 1	samba	2016-01-18 11:00	ALAS-2016-634

CVSS Scores

	Score Type	Score	Vector
Amazon Linux	CVSSv2	3.5	AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD	CVSSv2	5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD	CVSSv3	5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

References

Red Hat: CVE-2015-5299 Mitre: CVE-2015-5299 FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity