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CVE-2023-0922

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-04-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-319

Description

The Samba AD DC administration tool, when operating against a remote LDAP server, will by default send new or reset passwords over a signed-only connection.

Affected products

• Samba: from 4.0.0 before 4.16.10; from 4.17.0 before 4.17.7; 4.18.0, 4.18.0-rc1, 4.18.0-rc2, 4.18.0-rc3, 4.18.0-rc4 — fixed in 4.16.10, 4.17.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Samba 4.16.10, 4.17.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YXBPYIA4VWNOD437NAHZ3NXKAETLFB5S/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-06
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230406-0007/
• https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2023-0922.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YXBPYIA4VWNOD437NAHZ3NXKAETLFB5S/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-06
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230406-0007/
• https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2023-0922.html

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