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CVE-2017-7494
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CVE-2017-7494
MITRE ATT&CK
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Command and Control
Credential Access
Defense Evasion
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Execution
Exfiltration
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Initial Access
Lateral Movement
Persistence
Privilege Escalation
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Samba since version 3.5.0 and before 4.6.4, 4.5.10 and 4.4.14 is vulnerable to remote code execution vulnerability, allowing a malicious client to upload a shared library to a writable share, and then cause the server to load and execute it.
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This vulnerability was the Linux equivalent to Wanncry according to some journalists. It was not.
This vulnerability (AKA SambaCry) worked by writing a link library (.so file) to a linux host running Sama in such a way that samba then loaded it. On the face of it, this was a problem, but attackers had 2 large hurdles:
- Anonymous file creation had to be enabled and
- Attackers had to guess the right absolute path
In the first case, it is unlikely any enterprise will have anonymous file creation turned on, so immediately attackers are thwarted. In the second case, an attacker must guess the absolute path to the share as it is mounted on the remote computer. There are obvious guesses attackers could make, but nothing that was guaranteed. This was the classic example of a terrifying exploit mitigated by large caveats. Most common-sense approaches to SAMBA and SMB shared will mitigate this threat, namely not opening SMB/SAMBA shares to the internet, not allowing anonymous logins, and keeping software up to date.
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- debian,
- samba
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- debian linux 8.0,
- samba
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