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CVE-2017-12163

MEDIUM
Published 2018-07-26T16:00:00
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CVSS Score

V3.0
4.1
/10
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2025.03.14
0.195
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 19.5% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-06-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.951
Higher than 95.1% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
LOW
Availability
NONE

Description

An information leak flaw was found in the way SMB1 protocol was implemented by Samba before 4.4.16, 4.5.x before 4.5.14, and 4.6.x before 4.6.8. A malicious client could use this flaw to dump server memory contents to a file on the samba share or to a shared printer, though the exact area of server memory cannot be controlled by the attacker.

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

Related News

No news articles found for this CVE.

Affected Products

Samba

Samba

Affected Versions:

4.7 4.6.8 4.5.14 4.4.16

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

⚠ Unreviewed HIGH

GHSA-hvhw-9wrg-hf3q

Advisory Details

An information leak flaw was found in the way SMB1 protocol was implemented by Samba before 4.4.16, 4.5.x before 4.5.14, and 4.6.x before 4.6.8. A malicious client could use this flaw to dump server memory contents to a file on the samba share or to a shared printer, though the exact area of server memory cannot be controlled by the attacker.

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

7.5

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12163
WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2789
WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2790
WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2791
WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2858
WEB https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12163
WEB https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1491206
WEB https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12163
WEB https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbns03775en_us
WEB https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20170921-0001
WEB https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbux03817en_us
WEB https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3983
WEB https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2017-12163.html
WEB https://www.synology.com/support/security/Synology_SA_17_57_Samba
WEB http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100925
WEB http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039401

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: May 13, 2022, Modified: May 13, 2022

References

https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbns03775en_us
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20170921-0001/
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2790
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100925
https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2017-12163.html
https://www.synology.com/support/security/Synology_SA_17_57_Samba
https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbux03817en_us
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3983
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2858
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039401
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12163
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2789
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2791
Published: 2018-07-26T16:00:00
Last Modified: 2024-08-05T18:28:16.539Z
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