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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2016-2118

The MS-SAMR and MS-LSAD protocol implementations in Samba 3.x and 4.x before 4.2.11, 4.3.x before 4.3.8, and 4.4.x before 4.4.2 mishandle DCERPC connections, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to perform protocol-downgrade attacks and impersonate…

HIGH 7.5EPSS 36.9%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 36.9%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

The MS-SAMR and MS-LSAD protocol implementations in Samba 3.x and 4.x before 4.2.11, 4.3.x before 4.3.8, and 4.4.x before 4.4.2 mishandle DCERPC connections, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to perform protocol-downgrade attacks and impersonate users by modifying the client-server data stream, aka "BADLOCK."

CVSS 3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
36.93% probability · 99th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-254
Affected
samba/samba · canonical/ubuntu linux · debian/debian linux
Source
secalert@redhat.com
EPSS trend
0%20%40%26 October 2026: 36.93%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 36.9% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.