CVE-2001-1162

highpriority · attend · 54EPSS 0.120 · 96 %ileexploit · functionalEURUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

12.0% (96th) EPSS

CVSS 10 · high

Is it mine?

12 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-26

Directory traversal vulnerability in the %m macro in the smb.conf configuration file in Samba before 2.2.0a allows remote attackers to overwrite certain files via a .. in a NETBIOS name, which is used as the name for a .log file.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

10.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 9–10

v2.010highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 10

v2.010criticalAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Csecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v2.09highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-22USLLM-inferred

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-20968Samba 2.0.x/2.2 - Arbitrary File Creationfunctional · exploit_db

affected products (12)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
Red Hat Inc. Red Hat Enterprise Linux≤ 7fstec_bduRU
Red Hat Inc. Red Hat Enterprise Linux≤ 7.1 for zSeriesfstec_bduRU
Red Hat Inc. Red Hat Enterprise Linux≤ 6.2fstec_bduRU
hp cifs-9000 server= a.01.05nvdUScpe:2.3:a:hp:cifs-9000_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
hp cifs-9000 server= a.01.06nvdUScpe:2.3:a:hp:cifs-9000_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
samba samba= 2.0.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
samba samba= 2.0.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
samba samba= 2.0.7nvdUScpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
samba samba= 2.0.8nvdUScpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
samba samba= 2.0.9nvdUScpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
samba samba= 2.2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (7)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd fstec_bdu nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2001-06-23modified 2026-06-16

references (24)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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