CVE-2013-4496

samba: Password lockout not enforced for SAMR password changes

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

3.8

CVSS 2.0

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Published · March 12, 2014

Updated · June 27, 2026

Description

Samba 3.x before 3.6.23, 4.0.x before 4.0.16, and 4.1.x before 4.1.6 does not enforce the password-guessing protection mechanism for all interfaces, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access via brute-force ChangePasswordUser2 (1) SAMR or (2) RAP attempts.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 3.8
AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

CWE not specified