Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-34968

Medium

Published: 20 July 2023

Published
20 July 2023
Modified
06 December 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0234 85.2th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-34968 is a medium-severity Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data (CWE-201) vulnerability in Samba Samba. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 14.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A path disclosure vulnerability was found in Samba. As part of the Spotlight protocol, Samba discloses the server-side absolute path of shares, files, and directories in the results for search queries. This flaw allows a malicious client or an attacker…

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with a targeted RPC request to view the information that is part of the disclosed path.

CWE(s)
CWE-201NVD-CWE-noinfo

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

samba
samba
≤ 4.16.11 · 4.17.0 — 4.17.10 · 4.18.0 — 4.18.5
fedoraproject
fedora
37, 38
redhat
storage
3.0
redhat
enterprise linux
8.0, 9.0
debian
debian linux
11.0, 12.0

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SI-20 Tainting
addresses: CWE-201

Embedding taints allows detection when sensitive data is inserted into outbound or sent data streams.

References