CVE-2004-0082

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-03-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The mksmbpasswd shell script (mksmbpasswd.sh) in Samba 3.0.0 and 3.0.1, when creating an account but marking it as disabled, may overwrite the user password with an uninitialized buffer, which could enable the account with a more easily guessable password.

Affected products

Samba: 3.0.0, 3.0.1

References

http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/WHATSNEW-3.0.2a.txt
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-078.shtml
http://www.osvdb.org/3919
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-064.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9637
http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/3388eff9-5d6e-11d8-80e3-0020ed76ef5a.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15132
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A827
http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/WHATSNEW-3.0.2a.txt
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-078.shtml
http://www.osvdb.org/3919
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-064.html

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