CVE-2018-1140
A missing input sanitization flaw was found in the implementation of LDP database used for the LDAP server.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 10.8%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
A missing input sanitization flaw was found in the implementation of LDP database used for the LDAP server. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service against a samba server, used as a Active Directory Domain Controller. All versions of Samba from 4.8.0 onwards are vulnerable
- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 10.84% probability · 96th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-20
- Affected
- samba/samba
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
EPSS 10.8% since 27 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
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105082Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1140Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13374Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-52
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180814-0001/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2018-1140.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105082Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1140Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13374Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-52
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180814-0001/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2018-1140.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.