Medium severity · published Apr 9, 2019
CVE-2019-3880
A flaw was found in the way samba implemented an RPC endpoint emulating the Windows registry service API
5.4
CVSS
3.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in the way samba implemented an RPC endpoint emulating the Windows registry service API. An unprivileged attacker could use this flaw to create a new registry hive file anywhere they have unix permissions which could lead to creation of a new file in the Samba share. Versions before 4.8.11, 4.9.6 and 4.10.2 are vulnerable.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.2% · higher than 88% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
28; 29; 30 · source: NVD
GS
Gluster Storage · Redhat
3.0 · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
42.3 · source: NVD
SA
Samba · Samba
3.2.0 before 4.8.11; 4.9.0 before 4.9.6; 4.10.0 before 4.10.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3880
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-3880
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00050.html
Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00106.html
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1966
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1967
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2099
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3582
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