CVE-2016-2115

samba: Smb signing not required by default when smb client connection is used for ipc usage

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.8

CVSS 2.0

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Published · April 12, 2016

Updated · June 27, 2026

Description

It was found that Samba did not enable integrity protection for IPC traffic by default. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to view and modify the data sent between a Samba server and a client.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 5.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CWE-300 · Channel Accessible by Non-Endpoint