CVE-2009-2948: Samba

Low severity, CVSS 1.9. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

mount.cifs in Samba 3.0 before 3.0.37, 3.2 before 3.2.15, 3.3 before 3.3.8 and 3.4 before 3.4.2, when mount.cifs is installed suid root, does not properly enforce permissions, which allows local users to read part of the credentials file and obtain the password by specifying the path to the credentials file and using the --verbose or -v option.

Affected products

• Samba Samba: from 3.0.0, before 3.0.37 (fixed in 3.0.37); from 3.2.0, before 3.2.15 (fixed in 3.2.15); from 3.3.0, before 3.3.8 (fixed in 3.3.8); from 3.4.0, before 3.4.2 (fixed in 3.4.2)

Published 2009-10-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.