Security Bypass Affecting samba package, versions [4.9.0,4.9.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.41% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SAMBA-2370500
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed28 Nov 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-16857  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-358  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade samba to version 4.9.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Security Bypass. Samba from version 4.9.0 and before version 4.9.3 that have AD DC configurations watching for bad passwords (to restrict brute forcing of passwords) in a window of more than 3 minutes may not watch for bad passwords at all. The primary risk from this issue is with regards to domains that have been upgraded from Samba 4.8 and earlier. In these cases the manual testing done to confirm an organisation's password policies apply as expected may not have been re-done after the upgrade.

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