CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-2124

Improper Authentication

Published: Feb 18, 2022 | Modified: Sep 17, 2023
CVSS 3.x
5.9
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
6.8 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

A flaw was found in the way samba implemented SMB1 authentication. An attacker could use this flaw to retrieve the plaintext password sent over the wire even if Kerberos authentication was required.

Weakness

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Samba Samba 3.0.0 (including) 4.13.14 (excluding)
Samba Samba 4.14.0 (including) 4.14.10 (excluding)
Samba Samba 4.15.0 (including) 4.15.2 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat samba-0:4.10.16-17.el7_9 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat samba-0:4.14.5-7.el8_5 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat samba-0:4.14.5-7.el8_5 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support RedHat samba-0:4.11.2-18.el8_2 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support RedHat samba-0:4.13.3-8.el8_4 *
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.5 for RHEL 7 RedHat samba-0:4.11.6-114.el7rhgs *
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.5 for RHEL 8 RedHat samba-0:4.14.5-204.el8rhgs *
Samba Ubuntu bionic *
Samba Ubuntu devel *
Samba Ubuntu esm-infra-legacy/trusty *
Samba Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Samba Ubuntu focal *
Samba Ubuntu hirsute *
Samba Ubuntu impish *
Samba Ubuntu jammy *
Samba Ubuntu kinetic *
Samba Ubuntu lunar *
Samba Ubuntu mantic *
Samba Ubuntu noble *
Samba Ubuntu oracular *
Samba Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Samba Ubuntu upstream *

Potential Mitigations

References