CVE-2007-0473: SMB4K

Low severity, CVSS 1.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The writeFile function in core/smb4kfileio.cpp in Smb4K before 0.8.0 does not preserve /etc/sudoers permissions across modifications, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information (/etc/sudoers contents) by reading this file.

Affected products

  • SMB4K SMB4K: version 0.4 only; version 0.5 only; version 0.6 only; version 0.7 only

Published 2007-02-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.