CVE-2023-34968

Publication date 19 July 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.3 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
samba 24.10 oracular
Fixed 2:4.18.5+dfsg-1ubuntu1
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 2:4.18.5+dfsg-1ubuntu1
23.10 mantic
Fixed 2:4.18.5+dfsg-1ubuntu1
23.04 lunar
Fixed 2:4.17.7+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1
22.10 kinetic
Fixed 2:4.16.8+dfsg-0ubuntu1.2
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2:4.15.13+dfsg-0ubuntu1.2
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2:4.15.13+dfsg-0ubuntu0.20.04.3
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of ESM support, was needs-triage

Notes

sbeattie

spotlight support was enabled in ubuntu packages in 2:4.13.2+dfsg-3ubuntu1 (Ubuntu 21.04 / hirsute) and in the 2:4.13.14+dfsg-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 backport to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / focal. Older versions are not affected *unless* it is decided to backport a newer version to address other open security issues; see https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1950363 for details.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.3 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

References

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