Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2001-1162. PoCs published by Michal Zalewski.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages insufficient NetBIOS name input validation in Samba to write arbitrary files, potentially allowing local privilege escalation by injecting entries into the /etc/passwd file. The provided commands use smbclient to inject malicious user entries with UID 0.
Description
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.
Exploits (1)
This exploit leverages insufficient NetBIOS name input validation in Samba to write arbitrary files, potentially allowing local privilege escalation by injecting entries into the /etc/passwd file. The provided commands use smbclient to inject malicious user entries with UID 0.