CVE-2011-2522

Public Exploit

Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT) in Samba 3.x before 3.5.10 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) shut down daemons, (2) start daemons, (3) add shares, (4) remove shares, (5) add printers, (6) remove printers, (7) add user accounts, or (8) remove user accounts, as demonstrated by certain start, stop, and restart parameters to the status program.

Category

6.8
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 21.93% Top 5%
Vendor Advisory mandriva.com Vendor Advisory hp.com Vendor Advisory marc.info Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory ubuntu.com Vendor Advisory samba.org Vendor Advisory samba.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:121 vendor advisory broken link
http://osvdb.org/74071 vdb entry broken link
http://www.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=emr_na-c03008543 vendor advisory broken link
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133527864025056&w=2 vendor advisory mailing list third party advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025852 third party advisory vdb entry
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8290 patch third party advisory issue tracking
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2290 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2011-2522 vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/45393 third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/45496 third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/45488 third party advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=721348 patch third party advisory issue tracking
http://samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.5.10.html vendor advisory
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17577 third party advisory vdb entry exploit
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8317 third party advisory
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN29529126/index.html third party advisory
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1182-1 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48899 third party advisory vdb entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/68843 third party advisory vdb entry

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2011-2522?
CVE-2011-2522 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2011-2522?
To fix CVE-2011-2522, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2011-2522 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2011-2522 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~22% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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