CVE-2016-2124

moderate-risk
Published 2022-02-18

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.

Do I need to act?

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0.70% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
5
CVSS 5.9/10 Medium
NETWORK / HIGH complexity

Affected Products (20)

Affected Vendors

Debian Redhat Samba Canonical Fedoraproject

References (8)

Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2019660
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00013.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-06
Mitigation https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2016-2124.html
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2019660
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00013.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-06
Mitigation https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2016-2124.html
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moderate-risk
Severity 18/34 · Moderate
Exploitability 2/34 · Minimal
Exposure 24/34 · High