Information Exposure Affecting samba package, versions [3.0.0,4.13.14) [4.14.0,4.14.10) [4.15.0,4.15.2)


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.14% (49th percentile)
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NVD
5.9 medium
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SUSE
6.8 medium
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Red Hat
6.8 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UNMANAGED-SAMBA-2936545
  • published 29 Jun 2022
  • disclosed 28 Jun 2022
  • credit Stefan Metzmacher

How to fix?

Upgrade samba to version 4.13.14, 4.14.10, 4.15.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure via the SMB1 implementation of authentication. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to retrieve the plaintext password sent over the wire even if Kerberos authentication was required.

Note: Exploiting this vulnerability is only possible when SMB1 is enabled.