CVE-2016-2124

MediumCVSS 5.9/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.9/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-287

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	samba	samba 4.15.2, samba 4.14.10, samba 4.13.14

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2019660Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00013.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-06
https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2016-2124.htmlMitigation, Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2019660Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00013.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-06
https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2016-2124.htmlMitigation, Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Feb 18, 2022
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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