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Vulnerability details: VCID-xvjy-amhr-z3d8
Vulnerability ID VCID-xvjy-amhr-z3d8
Aliases CVE-2017-2619
Summary Samba before versions 4.6.1, 4.5.7 and 4.4.11 are vulnerable to a malicious client using a symlink race to allow access to areas of the server file system not exported under the share definition.
Status Published
Exploitability 2.0
Weighted Severity 5.3
Risk 10.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
System Score Found at
cvssv3 5.9 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-2619.json
epss 0.47493 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-2619
cvssv2 3.8 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-2619.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-2619
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-2619
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
1429472 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1429472
CVE-2017-2619 Exploit https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1039
CVE-2017-2619 Exploit https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/multiple/remote/41740.txt
RHSA-2017:1265 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1265
RHSA-2017:2338 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2338
RHSA-2017:2778 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2778
RHSA-2017:2789 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2789
Data source Exploit-DB
Date added March 27, 2017
Description Samba 4.5.2 - Symlink Race Permits Opening Files Outside Share Directory
Ransomware campaign use Known
Source publication date March 27, 2017
Exploit type remote
Platform multiple
Source update date March 27, 2017
Source URL https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1039
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-2619.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Vector: AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.97756
EPSS Score 0.47493
Published At June 4, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-04T17:10:40.276517+00:00 Debian Importer Import https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/data/json 38.6.0