Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2001-0406. PoCs published by Gabriel Maggiotti.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages a symbolic link vulnerability in Samba to overwrite system files, potentially leading to privilege escalation. It creates a malicious log file in /tmp and manipulates it to modify /etc/passwd.
Description
Samba before 2.2.0 allows local attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack using (1) a printer queue query, (2) the more command in smbclient, or (3) the mput command in smbclient.
Exploits (1)
This exploit leverages a symbolic link vulnerability in Samba to overwrite system files, potentially leading to privilege escalation. It creates a malicious log file in /tmp and manipulates it to modify /etc/passwd.