THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2012-2111
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2012-2111

Samba vulnerability

CVSS
6.5
EPSS
4.8%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
The (1) CreateAccount, (2) OpenAccount, (3) AddAccountRights, and (4) RemoveAccountRights LSA RPC procedures in smbd in Samba 3.4.x before 3.4.17, 3.5.x before 3.5.15, and 3.6.x before 3.6.5 do not properly restrict modifications to the privileges database, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain the "take ownership" privilege via an LSA connection.
Affected vendor
Samba
Affected product
Samba
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-264 — Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
Published
2012-04-30

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

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