CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-2126

Published: May 11, 2017 | Modified: Aug 29, 2022
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Samba version 4.0.0 up to 4.5.2 is vulnerable to privilege elevation due to incorrect handling of the PAC (Privilege Attribute Certificate) checksum. A remote, authenticated, attacker can cause the winbindd process to crash using a legitimate Kerberos ticket. A local service with access to the winbindd privileged pipe can cause winbindd to cache elevated access permissions.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Samba Samba 4.0.0 (including) 4.3.13 (excluding)
Samba Samba 4.4.0 (including) 4.4.8 (excluding)
Samba Samba 4.5.0 (including) 4.5.3 (excluding)

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