CVE-2005-2851: SMB4K

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

smb4k 0.4 and other versions before 0.6.3 allows local users to read sensitive files via a symlink attack on the (1) smb4k.tmp or (2) sudoers temporary files.

Affected products

• SMB4K SMB4K: version 0.4 only; version 0.5 only; version 0.6 only

Published 2005-09-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.