CVE-2013-4496
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | 10.04 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 12.04 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 12.10 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 13.10 | affected | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 2:4.1.6+dfsg-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 2:4.1.6+dfsg-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 2:4.1.6+dfsg-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 2:4.1.6+dfsg-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 2:4.1.6+dfsg-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| samba | samba | {"startIncluding":"3.4.0","endExcluding":"3.6.23"} | 3.6.23 |
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0138.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136864.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-June/134717.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00047.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00048.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00062.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00063.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0330.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-15.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:082
- http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.6.23.html
- http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.0.16.html
- http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.1.6.html
- http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2013-4496
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66336
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2156-1
- https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10245
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05115993
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4496
CWEs
CWE-255
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.