National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-2522
Original release date:07/29/2011
Last revised:10/04/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8290
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=721348
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: samba-swat-csrf(68843)
External Source: BID
Name: 48899
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2011-2522
Type: Advisory
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2011:121
External Source: HP
Name: HPSBNS02701
External Source: HP
Name: SSRT100598
External Source: EXPLOIT-DB
Name: 17577
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-2290
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-1182-1
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1025852
External Source: SREASON
Name: 8317
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 45496
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 45488
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 45393
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.5.10.html
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 74071
External Source: JVN
Name: JVN#29529126
Technical Details
- Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (CWE-352)