CVE-2016-2125
Moderate
CVE-2016-2125
It was found that Samba before versions 4.5.3, 4.4.8, 4.3.13 always requested forwardable tickets when using Kerberos authentication. A service to which Samba authenticated using Kerberos could subsequently use the ticket to impersonate Samba to other services or domain users.
Exploit probability
9.2%
Published
October 31, 2018
Required by
Not available
Last source change
July 8, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
8 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2016-2125
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It was found that Samba before versions 4.5.3, 4.4.8, 4.3.13 always requested forwardable tickets when using Kerberos authentication. A service to which Samba authenticated using Kerberos could subsequently use the ticket to impersonate Samba to other services or domain users.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0494.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0495.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0662.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0744.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94988
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037494
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1265
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-2125
- https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2016-2125.html