8.8
CVSSv3

CVE-2018-1057

Published: 13/03/2018 Updated: 29/08/2022
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8
CVSS v3 Base Score: 8.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 2.8
VMScore: 578
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

On a Samba 4 AD DC the LDAP server in all versions of Samba from 4.0.0 onwards incorrectly validates permissions to modify passwords over LDAP allowing authenticated users to change any other users' passwords, including administrative users and privileged service accounts (eg Domain Controllers).

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Vendor Advisories

Several security issues were fixed in Samba ...
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Samba, a SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues: CVE-2018-1050 It was discovered that Samba is prone to a denial of service attack when the RPC spoolss service is configured to be run as an external ...
A flaw was found in the way Samba AD DC validated user permissions An authenticated attacker could use this flaw to change any other users passwords, including administrative users ...
On a Samba 4 AD DC any authenticated user can change other users' passwords over LDAP, including the passwords of administrative users and service accounts ...

Recent Articles

Samba settings SNAFU lets any user change admin passwords
The Register • Simon Sharwood • 14 Mar 2018

Patch or risk Revenge Of The Users

Samba admins: get patching and/or updating. Unless you’re content to have your admin passwords overwritten by, well, anyone else using Samba. That’s the gist of an advisory warning that “On a Samba 4 Active Directory domain controller (AD DC) any authenticated user can change other users' passwords over LDAP, including the passwords of administrative users and service accounts.” “Samba vendors and administrators running affected versions are advised to upgrade or apply the patch as soo...