samba — security advisory
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.
- Products
- samba
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2:4.16.0+dfsg-2
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-43566
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 01:42 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2021-43566
samba
Fixed versions: 2:4.16.0+dfsg-2
samba
Fixed versions: 2:4.16.0+dfsg-2
samba
Fixed versions: 2:4.16.0+dfsg-2
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 424026,
"published_at": "2022-01-11T16:15:07.813+00:00"
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