CVE-2023-34968
No exploitation reported by the sources we read.
- Published2023-07-20
- Fixed in4.18.5 · 4.17.10 · 4.16.11
- WeaknessCWE-201
Am I affected?
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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.
Timeline
dates in UTC- 2023-07-2015:15CVE publishedNVD
Observed activity
isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-10-23 21:37 UTCBlock these indicators
- Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2023-34968?format=txt
- CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2023-34968?format=csv
- TAXII collection of exploited CVEs
- The EDL and CSV take an API key on the Pro plan.
Versions per branch
NVD| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.18 | ≥ 4.18.0, < 4.18.5 | 4.18.5 | NVD |
| 4.17 | ≥ 4.17.0, < 4.17.10 | 4.17.10 | NVD |
| 4.16 | < 4.16.11 | 4.16.11 | NVD |
| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11.0 | = 11.0 | no fix published | NVD |
| 12.0 | = 12.0 | no fix published | NVD |
| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 37.x | = 37 | no fix published | NVD |
| 38.x | = 38 | no fix published | NVD |
2 more products in the sources.
as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.
Distribution builds and vendor advisories
Packages from OSV.dev and products from the vendors' CSAF advisories.
version not verifiedVersions not verified: read as OSV.dev and the vendors publish them, not checked against each vendor's release list.
Packages
- sambaAlmaLinux:9all versions · fixed in 4.18.6-100.el9and 33 other packages
- sambaAlmaLinux:8all versions · fixed in 4.18.6-1.el8and 33 other packages
Fix
- Update Samba to 4.18.5 · 4.17.10 · 4.16.11
Advisories and patches
- www.samba.orgVendor Advisory
Detection
- Nuclei template
- none so far ProjectDiscovery
- Exploit-DB
- no entry Exploit-DB
- Proof-of-concept repositories
- none listed PoC-in-GitHub
Sources
- CNACVSS 3.15.3read 2026-10-23
- NVDCVSS 3.15.3read 2026-10-23
- CNAweakness (CWE)CWE-201read 2026-10-23
- FIRST EPSSEPSS score1.3 %2026-10-23
- OSVaffected packages—
Technical details
- CVSS v3 Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Published
- 2023-07-20
- Last Modified
- 2026-06-17
- NVD status
- Modified
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