vulnerability

Samba CVE-2018-1057: Authenticated users can change other users' password

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 13, 2018
Added
Mar 13, 2018
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

On a Samba 4 AD DC the LDAP server in all versions of Samba from 4.0.0 onwards incorrectly validates permissions to modify passwords over LDAP allowing authenticated users to change any other users' passwords, including administrative users and privileged service accounts (eg Domain Controllers).

Solutions

samba-upgrade-4_5_16samba-upgrade-4_6_14samba-upgrade-4_7_6
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