Vulnerability in Samba
CVE-2016-2118
The MS-SAMR and MS-LSAD protocol implementations in Samba 3.x and 4.x before 4.2.11, 4.3.x before 4.3.8, and 4.4.x before 4.4.2 mishandle DCERPC connections, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to perform protocol-downgrade attacks an…
EPSS: 0.785 (99.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
Affected products
- Samba
- Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 12.04, 14.04, 15.10
- Debian Debian_linux — versions 7.0, 8.0
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
- nickanderson/cfengine-CVE-2016-2118
- ARPSyndicate/cvemon
- ILoveOllyexe/Penetration-Test-Metasploitable2
- KDRSMH/Zerone-week-3
- Live-Hack-CVE/CVE-2016-2118
- cfengine-content/registry
- digitronik/rh-sec-data
- dylan23ndagala/Nessus-Vulnerability-Assessment-Home-Lab
- santsys/aruba-clearpass-api
- trend-anz/Deep-Security-Open-Patch
References
- SSA:2016-106-02 (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SLACKWARE)
- SUSE-SU-2016:1022 (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- RHSA-2016:0612 (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- USN-2950-1 (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
- SUSE-SU-2016:1028 (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- RHSA-2016:0613 (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (Technical Description, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
- RHSA-2016:0621 (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2016-2118?
- CVE-2016-2118 is a high-severity vulnerability in Samba, classified under CWE-254. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2016-04-12.
- How severe is CVE-2016-2118?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2016-2118 known to be exploited?
- 11 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.