CVE-2011-2694: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Low severity, CVSS 2.6. EPSS: 6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the chg_passwd function in web/swat.c in the Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT) in Samba 3.x before 3.5.10 allows remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the username parameter to the passwd program (aka the user field to the Change Password page).

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 8.04 only; version 10.04 only; version 10.10 only; version 11.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Samba Samba: from 3.0.0, before 3.3.16 (fixed in 3.3.16); from 3.4.0, before 3.4.14 (fixed in 3.4.14); from 3.5.0, before 3.5.10 (fixed in 3.5.10)

Published 2011-07-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.