CVE-2012-2111

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-04-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The (1) CreateAccount, (2) OpenAccount, (3) AddAccountRights, and (4) RemoveAccountRights LSA RPC procedures in smbd in Samba 3.4.x before 3.4.17, 3.5.x before 3.5.15, and 3.6.x before 3.6.5 do not properly restrict modifications to the privileges database, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain the "take ownership" privilege via an LSA connection.

Affected products

Samba: 3.4.0, 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.3, 3.4.4, 3.4.5 (+31)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079662.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079670.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079677.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00023.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00003.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134323086902585&w=2
http://osvdb.org/81648
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0533.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/48976
http://secunia.com/advisories/48984
http://secunia.com/advisories/48996

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