Description
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 with a targeted RPC request to view the information that is part of the disclosed path.
Published: 2023-07-20
Score: 5.3 Medium
EPSS: 2.2% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5477-1 samba security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5647-1 samba security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-39007 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 with a targeted RPC request to view the information that is part of the disclosed path.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6238-1 Samba vulnerabilities

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Debian Debian Linux
Fedoraproject Fedora
Redhat Enterprise Linux Rhel Eus Rhev Hypervisor Storage
Samba Samba
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2025-11-20T17:29:04.734Z

Reserved: 2023-06-07T21:11:04.262Z

Link: CVE-2023-34968

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-07-20T15:15:11.540

Modified: 2024-12-06T11:15:05.270

Link: CVE-2023-34968

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2023-07-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-34968 - Bugzilla

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