samba — security advisory
A path disclosure vulnerability was found in Samba. As part of the Spotlight protocol, Samba discloses the server-side absolute path of shares, files, and directories in the results for search queries. This flaw allows a malicious client or an attacker with a targeted RPC request to view the information that is part of the disclosed path.
- Products
- samba
- Affected versions
- 2:4.17.10+dfsg-0+deb12u1~bpo11+1, 2:4.17.8+dfsg-2, 2:4.17.8+dfsg-2.1, 2:4.17.9+dfsg-0+deb12u1, 2:4.17.9+dfsg-0+deb12u2, 2:4.17.9+dfsg-0+deb12u3, 2:4.17.9+dfsg-0+deb12u3~bpo11+1
- Fixed versions
- 2:4.17.10+dfsg-0+deb12u1, 2:4.18.5+dfsg-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-34968
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 16:23 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A path disclosure vulnerability was found in Samba. As part of the Spotlight protocol, Samba discloses the server-side absolute path of shares, files, and directories in the results for search queries. This flaw allows a malicious client or an attacker with a targeted RPC request to view the information that is part of the disclosed path.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-34968
samba
Fixed versions: 2:4.17.10+dfsg-0+deb12u1
samba
Fixed versions: 2:4.18.5+dfsg-1
samba
Fixed versions: 2:4.18.5+dfsg-1
Complete source record
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