Security advisory

{
  "id": "de139a44d03d11b506b236d83112cedfb0f5bdbc3b1f07d24669fcb1416c684b",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-3592",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2022-3592",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2022-3592",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2022-3592",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2022-3592"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/samba-team/samba",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "fbec737d9d3d992b54f52defcba62a304efef8f7"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "21f995104c870cdfbdb0db61e290b2da8bc87ee1"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "4.17.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "4.17.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "samba-4.17.1",
            "samba-4.17.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-3592.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:25.478120888Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3592",
        "https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2022-3592.html",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/3xxx/CVE-2022-3592.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3592",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-06",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2137776"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cwe_ids": [
          "CWE-61"
        ],
        "cna_assigner": "redhat",
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "Affects samba since 4.17.0, Fixed samba 4.17.2."
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "Affects samba since 4.17.0, Fixed samba 4.17.2."
                  }
                ],
                "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
                "strategy": "StandaloneSingleVersion"
              }
            ]
          }
        ],
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/3xxx/CVE-2022-3592.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2022-3592",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 492146,
  "published_at": "2023-01-12T00:00:00+00:00"
}