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Description
A flaw was found in samba's pam_winbind. When mkhomedir is enabled, pam_winbind chowns the target account's home directory without validating the path is not a critical system directory such as /. On affected systems, accounts with / as their home directory (a common default for system accounts) can have this triggered not only by root, but by a non-root user holding a narrow sudo delegation to run commands as that account, causing ownership of / to change and resulting in severe denial of service (SSH, sudo, and package-manager failures). The change does not grant write access to / (which ships with restrictive 0555 permissions on RHEL), so the impact is availability loss rather than further privilege escalation.SUSE information
Overall state of this security issue: Pending
This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.
| CVSS detail | CNA (Red Hat) | SUSE |
|---|---|---|
| Base Score | 6.1 | 6.1 |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Local | Local |
| Attack Complexity | Low | Low |
| Privileges Required | Low | Low |
| User Interaction | None | None |
| Scope | Unchanged | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality Impact | None | None |
| Integrity Impact | Low | Low |
| Availability Impact | High | High |
| CVSSv3 Version | 3.1 | 3.1 |
| CVSS detail | SUSE |
|---|---|
| Base Score | 6.8 |
| Vector | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| Attack Vector | Local |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Attack Requirements | None |
| Privileges Required | Low |
| User Interaction | None |
| Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Vulnerable System Integrity Impact | None |
| Vulnerable System Availability Impact | High |
| Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Subsequent System Integrity Impact | None |
| Subsequent System Availability Impact | None |
| CVSSv4 Version | 4.0 |
Status of this issue by product and package
Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.
| Product(s) | Source package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Products under general support and receiving all security fixes. | ||
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP7 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP7 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1 | samba | Already fixed |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.1 | samba | Already fixed |
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.0 | samba | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.1 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.2 | samba | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 16.0 | samba | Affected |
| Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes. | ||
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP5 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP4 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP5 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-LTSS | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP4 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP5 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP6 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS Extended Security | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4-LTSS | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5-LTSS | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6-LTSS | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy LTS 4.3 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server LTS 4.3 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.3 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Server LTS 4.3 | samba | Affected |
| Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore. | ||
| HPE Helion OpenStack 8 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 7 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP1 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP3 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP5 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP3 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP4 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP1 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP2 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP3 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP6 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-ESPOS | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-ESPOS | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-ESPOS | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-ESPOS | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP6 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP2 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP3 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Python 2 15 SP1 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Python 2 15 SP2 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Python 2 15 SP3 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP4 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-ESPOS | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-BCL | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-BCL | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-LTSS | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-BCL | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-LTSS | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP4 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.0 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.1 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.2 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 | samba | Affected |
| SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 | samba | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.3 | samba | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.4 | samba | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.5 | samba | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.6 | samba | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap Micro 5.2 | samba | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 | samba | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap Micro 5.4 | samba | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap Micro 5.5 | samba | Affected |
| Container Status | ||
| suse/samba-server | samba | Affected |
SUSE Timeline for this CVE
CVE page created: Wed Jul 15 15:24:29 2026CVE page last modified: Wed Jul 15 19:23:48 2026