CVE-2011-2522 Cross-site request forgery in n/a

What is CVE-2011-2522?

CVE-2011-2522 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 29 Jul 2011. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT) in Samba 3.x before 3.5.10 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) shut down daemons, (2) start daemons, (3) add shares, (4) remove shares, (5) add printers, (6) remove printers, (7) add user accounts, or (8) remove user accounts, as demonstrated by certain start, stop, and restart parameters to the status program.

Weakness: CWE-352

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-2522?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Samba Samba.

How do I fix CVE-2011-2522?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2011-2522 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2011-2522 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2011-2522, ECHO-d576-d17e-8079, GHSA-5cxg-6999-xfwq.