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Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: ALPINE-CVE-2021-44141

All versions of Samba prior to 4.15.5 are vulnerable to a malicious client using a server symlink to determine if a file or directory exists in an area of the server file system not exported under the share definition. SMB1 with unix extensions has to be enabled in order for this attack to succeed.

Products
samba
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
4.15.5-r0
CVEs
CVE-2021-44141
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
31 Oct 2026, 22:07 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

ALPINE-CVE-2021-44141

core-osv · Original source

Published 21 Feb 2022, 18:15 UTC

All versions of Samba prior to 4.15.5 are vulnerable to a malicious client using a server symlink to determine if a file or directory exists in an area of the server file system not exported under the share definition. SMB1 with unix extensions has to be enabled in order for this attack to succeed.

osv:ALPINE-CVE-2021-44141

samba

Fixed versions: 4.15.5-r0

samba

Fixed versions: 4.15.5-r0

Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2021-44141",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "summary": "All versions of Samba prior to 4.15.5 are vulnerable to a malicious client using a server symlink to determine if a file or directory exists in an area of the server file system not exported under the share definition. SMB1 with unix extensions has to be enabled in order for this attack to succeed.",
    "evidence": "osv:ALPINE-CVE-2021-44141",
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        },
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    "severity": "medium",
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"
        }
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          ],
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          },
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-23T17:17:56.224377165Z",
      "provider": "osv",
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      ],
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        "https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2021-44141"
      ]
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 415600,
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}