CVE-2016-2112
samba: Missing downgrade detection
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Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 2.0
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Published · April 12, 2016
Updated · June 27, 2026
Description
It was found that Samba's LDAP implementation did not enforce integrity protection for LDAP connections. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to downgrade LDAP connections to use no integrity protection, allowing them to hijack such connections.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 2.0 · 5.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
CWE-300 · Channel Accessible by Non-Endpoint