CVE-2003-0086: Samba

Low severity, CVSS 1.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The code for writing reg files in Samba before 2.2.8 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a race condition involving chown.

Affected products

• Samba Samba: version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; version 2.0.4 only; version 2.0.5 only; …

Published 2003-03-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.