CVE-2010-0926: Samba

Low severity, CVSS 3.5. EPSS: 30.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The default configuration of smbd in Samba before 3.3.11, 3.4.x before 3.4.6, and 3.5.x before 3.5.0rc3, when a writable share exists, allows remote authenticated users to leverage a directory traversal vulnerability, and access arbitrary files, by using the symlink command in smbclient to create a symlink containing .. (dot dot) sequences, related to the combination of the unix extensions and wide links options.

Affected products

• Samba Samba: version 3.3.0 only; version 3.3.1 only; version 3.3.2 only; version 3.3.3 only; version 3.3.4 only; version 3.3.5 only; …

Published 2010-03-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.