CVE-2019-14833

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

A flaw was found in Samba, all versions starting samba 4.5.0 before samba 4.9.15, samba 4.10.10, samba 4.11.2, in the way it handles a user password change or a new password for a samba user. The Samba Active Directory Domain Controller can be configured to use a custom script to check for password complexity. This configuration can fail to verify password complexity when non-ASCII characters are used in the password, which could lead to weak passwords being set for samba users, making it vulnerable to dictionary attacks.

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-2019-14833

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14833.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201911-6

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed4.10.10-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed2:4.11.1+dfsg-2
debian debianbullseyefixed2:4.11.1+dfsg-2
debian debianforkyfixed2:4.11.1+dfsg-2
debian debiansidfixed2:4.11.1+dfsg-2
debian debiantrixiefixed2:4.11.1+dfsg-2

References

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