SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2015-5296

Samba 3.x and 4.x before 4.1.22, 4.2.x before 4.2.7, and 4.3.x before 4.3.3 supports connections that are encrypted but unsigned, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to conduct encrypted-to-unencrypted downgrade attacks by modifying the…

MEDIUM 5.4EPSS 7.26%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (7.26%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

Samba 3.x and 4.x before 4.1.22, 4.2.x before 4.2.7, and 4.3.x before 4.3.3 supports connections that are encrypted but unsigned, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to conduct encrypted-to-unencrypted downgrade attacks by modifying the client-server data stream, related to clidfs.c, libsmb_server.c, and smbXcli_base.c.

CVSS 3.1
5.4 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS
7.26% probability · 94th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-20
Affected
samba/samba · debian/debian linux · canonical/ubuntu linux
Source
secalert@redhat.com

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.