Vulnerability in Samba
CVE-2013-4496
Samba 3.x before 3.6.23, 4.0.x before 4.0.16, and 4.1.x before 4.1.6 does not enforce the password-guessing protection mechanism for all interfaces, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access via brute-force ChangePasswordUser2 (1) SAMR or (2) RAP attempts.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.096 (95.3th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 95.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.096 · newest: 0.096 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Samba
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 10.04, 12.04, 12.10
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.1.6.html (Vendor Advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136864.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2013-4496 (Vendor Advisory)
- advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0138.html (Third Party Advisory)
- www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.0.16.html (Vendor Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00063.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-15.xml (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-June/134717.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2013-4496?
- CVE-2013-4496 is a vulnerability in Samba, classified under CWE-255. Published 2014-03-14.
- Is CVE-2013-4496 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.