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CVE-2016-2124
A flaw was found in the way samba implemented SMB1 authentication. An attacker could use this flaw to retrieve the plaintext password sent…
Medium5.9EPSS 1.8%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
A flaw was found in the way samba implemented SMB1 authentication. An attacker could use this flaw to retrieve the plaintext password sent over the wire even if Kerberos authentication was required.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.8% · top 22% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Weakness
Affected products
samba
- affected samba 4.15.2, samba 4.14.10, samba 4.13.14
References (4)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2019660 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2016-2124.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20230914 [SECURITY] [DLA 3563-1] samba security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- GLSA-202309-06 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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