CVE-2008-3789 (GCVE-0-2008-3789)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-08-27 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 09:53
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Samba 3.2.0 uses weak permissions (0666) for the (1) group_mapping.tdb and (2) group_mapping.ldb files, which allows local users to modify the membership of Unix groups.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
8 references
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|---|---|
| http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496073 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30837 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/31601 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020770 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
| http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2440 | vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN |
| http://samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2008-3789.html | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/08/26/2 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
Date Public
2008-08-26 00:00
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Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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