Medium severity · published May 5, 2021
CVE-2021-20254
A flaw was found in samba
6.8
CVSS
1.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in samba. The Samba smbd file server must map Windows group identities (SIDs) into unix group ids (gids). The code that performs this had a flaw that could allow it to read data beyond the end of the array in the case where a negative cache entry had been added to the mapping cache. This could cause the calling code to return those values into the process token that stores the group membership for a user. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.6% · higher than 76% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
7.0; 8.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
32; 33 · source: NVD
SA
Samba · Samba
3.6.0 before 4.12.15; 4.13.0 before 4.13.8; 4.14.0 before 4.14.4 · source: NVD