CVE-2019-14861Incorrect Default Permissions in Samba

Severity
5.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
5.0%
top 10.28%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedDec 10
Latest updateMay 24

Description

All Samba versions 4.x.x before 4.9.17, 4.10.x before 4.10.11 and 4.11.x before 4.11.3 have an issue, where the (poorly named) dnsserver RPC pipe provides administrative facilities to modify DNS records and zones. Samba, when acting as an AD DC, stores DNS records in LDAP. In AD, the default permissions on the DNS partition allow creation of new records by authenticated users. This is used for example to allow machines to self-register in DNS. If a DNS record was created that case-insensitively

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.6 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages5 packages

NVDsamba/samba4.0.04.9.17+2
Debiansamba/samba< 2:4.11.3+dfsg-1+3
Ubuntusamba/samba< 2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.24+2
CVEListV5red_hat/sambaall versions 4.10.x before 4.10.11, all versions 4.11.x before 4.11.3, all versions 4.x.x before 4.9.17+2
NVDopensuse/leap15.1

Also affects: Debian Linux 9.0, Fedora 30, 31, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 19.04, 19.10

🔴Vulnerability Details

5
GHSA
GHSA-jhj7-p3xq-vh37: All Samba versions 42022-05-24
OSV
samba vulnerabilities2019-12-11
OSV
CVE-2019-14861: All Samba versions 42019-12-10
OSV
samba vulnerabilities2019-12-10
CVEList
CVE-2019-14861: All Samba versions 42019-12-10

📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
Samba vulnerabilities2019-12-11
Red Hat
samba: An authenticated user can crash the DCE/RPC DNS management server by creating records with matching the zone name2019-12-10
Ubuntu
Samba vulnerabilities2019-12-10
Debian
CVE-2019-14861: samba - All Samba versions 4.x.x before 4.9.17, 4.10.x before 4.10.11 and 4.11.x before ...2019

💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-14861 samba: An authenticated user can crash the DCE/RPC DNS management server by creating records with matching the zone name [fedora-all]2019-12-10
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-14861 samba: An authenticated user can crash the DCE/RPC DNS management server by creating records with matching the zone name2019-12-02
CVE-2019-14861 — Incorrect Default Permissions in Samba | cvebase