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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-4091"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2023-11-03T07:56:35.611Z"
updatedAt: "2025-11-20T18:27:17.162Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:58.683Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-4091"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-4091.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-4091"
title: "Samba: smb clients can truncate files with read-only permissions"
summary: "A vulnerability was discovered in Samba, where the flaw allows SMB clients to truncate files, even with read-only permissions when the Samba VFS module \"acl_xattr\" is configured with \"acl_xattr:ignore system acls = yes\". The SMB protocol allows opening files when the client requests read-only access but then implicitly truncates the opened file to 0 bytes if the client specifies a separate OVERWRITE create disposition request. The issue arises in configurations that bypass kernel file system permissions checks, relying solely on Samba's permissions."
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