Medium severity · published Feb 18, 2022
CVE-2016-2124
A flaw was found in the way samba implemented SMB1 authentication
5.9
CVSS
1.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.8% · higher than 78% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CL
Codeready Linux Builder · Redhat
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0; 10.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
7.0; 8.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Desktop · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Eus · Redhat
8.2; 8.4 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux For Ibm Z Systems · Redhat
7.0; 8.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux For Ibm Z Systems Eus · Redhat
8.2; 8.4 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux For Power Big Endian · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian · Redhat
7.0; 8.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian Eus · Redhat
8.2; 8.4 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux For Scientific Computing · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2124
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2124
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2019660
lists.debian.org
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00013.html
security.gentoo.org
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-06
Mitigation
https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2016-2124.html
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