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CVE-2018-14629
A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in Samba's LDAP server before versions 4.7.12, 4.8.7, and 4.9.3. A CNAME loop could lead…
Medium6.5EPSS 5.2%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in Samba's LDAP server before versions 4.7.12, 4.8.7, and 4.9.3. A CNAME loop could lead to infinite recursion in the server. An unprivileged local attacker could create such an entry, leading to denial of service.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.2% · top 7.5% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
References (9)
- USN-3827-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-3827-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 106022 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181127-0001/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20181215 [SECURITY] [DLA 1607-1] samba security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14629 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-4345 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2018-14629.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-202003-52 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
Sources
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- 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)
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