Weakn encryption in Samba - CVE-2018-1139

 

Weakn encryption in Samba - CVE-2018-1139

Published: August 14, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU14336
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1139
CWE-ID: CWE-327
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass certain security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to an error that allows usage of NTLMv1 encryption protocol over SMB1 transport, even when NTLMv1 is explicitly disabled.


Affected software

Samba
Gentoo Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power
Opensuse
Fedora
Red Hat Gluster Storage Server for On-premise
samba (Alpine package)
libldb
samba

How to mitigate CVE-2018-1139

Update to version 4.7.9 or 4.8.4.

Samba - addressed in versions 4.7.9, 4.8.4
samba (Alpine package) - update to 4.7.6-r1
libldb - update to 1.4.0-3.fc28.1.3.5
samba - addressed in versions 4.7.9-0.fc27, 4.8.4-0.fc28

External References

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