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Description

An access control bypass flaw was identified in Samba's vfs_ceph_rgw module in it's openat() function. An authenticated user can bypass access controls to read or overwrite restricted files on shares configured with the experimental vfs_ceph_rgw module. When a client requests an existing file using mismatched character casing, the module fails to perform a case-insensitive lookup correctly, causing the server to treat the operation as creating a new file. As a result, the server skips standard permission checks on the existing file, allowing the attacker to access or overwrite sensitive data owned by other users.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Samba Samba 4.25.0 – < 4.25.1 4.25.1
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 — —
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 — —
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 — —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 samba 2:4.25.1+dfsg-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 samba No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS samba No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS samba No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS samba No fix yet —
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS samba No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS samba No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS samba No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS samba No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed samba 4.25.1+git.476.bfc358351cb-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:12334-1

Advisories 2

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