CVE-2022-45141

Publication date 16 December 2022

Last updated 30 June 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

Since the Windows Kerberos RC4-HMAC Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability was disclosed by Microsoft on Nov 8 2022 and per RFC8429 it is assumed that rc4-hmac is weak, Vulnerable Samba Active Directory DCs will issue rc4-hmac encrypted tickets despite the target server supporting better encryption (eg aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96).

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
samba 25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2:4.15.13+dfsg-0ubuntu1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2:4.15.13+dfsg-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 2:4.7.6+dfsg~ubuntu-0ubuntu2.29+esm1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.34+esm2
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

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Notes

mdeslaur

only affects 4.15.x and earlier The focal samba update was temporarily reverted by USN 5822-2 because it introduced regressions. It was later updated again with USN 5936-1.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package Patch details
samba

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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