CVE-2012-2111

medium
Published 2012-04-30 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.5
VIR risk
6.5

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2111

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2012-2111

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2:3.6.5-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2:3.6.5-1
debian debianforkyfixed2:3.6.5-1
debian debiansidfixed2:3.6.5-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2:3.6.5-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
sambasamba3.5.7
sambasamba3.5.8
sambasamba3.5.9
sambasamba3.4.0
sambasamba3.4.1
sambasamba3.4.2
sambasamba3.4.3
sambasamba3.4.4
sambasamba3.4.5
sambasamba3.4.6
sambasamba3.4.7
sambasamba3.4.8
sambasamba3.4.9
sambasamba3.4.10
sambasamba3.4.11
sambasamba3.4.12
sambasamba3.4.13
sambasamba3.4.14
sambasamba3.4.15
sambasamba3.4.16
sambasamba3.5.0
sambasamba3.5.1
sambasamba3.5.2
sambasamba3.5.3
sambasamba3.5.4
sambasamba3.5.5
sambasamba3.5.6
sambasamba3.5.10
sambasamba3.5.11
sambasamba3.5.12
sambasamba3.5.13
sambasamba3.5.14
sambasamba3.6.0
sambasamba3.6.1
sambasamba3.6.2
sambasamba3.6.3
sambasamba3.6.4

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.