SONAS includes a version of Samba that is affected by a vulnerability that sets incorrect attributes to a SONAS CIFS export.
VULNERABILITY DETAILS:
CVE ID:CVE-2013-0454
DESCRIPTION:
A flaw in the Samba code for handling attributes of SONAS CIFS shares is resulting in a serious vulnerability reported against the Samba open-source package.
This vulnerability would allow a remote user, originating from an authenticated connection, to execute operations on a SONAS CIFS export which are disallowed by the configured attributes of the respective CIFS share.
This vulnerability issue may cause the following security exposures:
Earlier versions of SONAS included a vulnerable version of Samba and may be susceptible to an attack that takes advantage of this vulnerability.
CVSS:
CVSS Base Score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/80970> for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
AFFECTED PLATFORMS:
REMEDIATION:
Vendor Fix(es): The issue was fixed beginning with version SONAS 1.3.2.1-21. SONAS customers running an earlier SONAS version (e.g. SONAS 1.2, 1.3.0 or SONAS 1.3.1) must upgrade to SONAS 1.3.2.1-21 or a later version.
Workaround(s): None.
Mitigation(s): None.
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