A missing input sanitization flaw was found in the implementation of LDP database used for the LDAP server. An attacker could use this…

Description

A missing input sanitization flaw was found in the implementation of LDP database used for the LDAP server. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service against a samba server, used as a Active Directory Domain Controller. All versions of Samba from 4.8.0 onwards are vulnerable

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

10.9% · top 4.1% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.

Weakness

• CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs

Affected products

• The Samba Team · samba

  • affected 4.8.0 and newer

References (6)

• https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13374 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2018-1140.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180814-0001/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 105082 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1140 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• GLSA-202003-52 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2018-1140](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2018-1140.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2018-1140)

Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 03:51 UTC.