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CVE-2022-32744

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-08-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-290

Description

A flaw was found in Samba. The KDC accepts kpasswd requests encrypted with any key known to it. By encrypting forged kpasswd requests with its own key, a user can change other users' passwords, enabling full domain takeover.

Affected products

• Samba: from 4.3.0 before 4.14.14; from 4.15.0 before 4.15.9; from 4.16.0 before 4.16.4 — fixed in 4.14.14, 4.15.9, 4.16.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Samba 4.14.14, 4.15.9, 4.16.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-06
• https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2022-32744.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-06
• https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2022-32744.html

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