CVSS 3.0
7.4 highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NCVE-2017-12151
A flaw was found in the way samba client before samba 4.4.16, samba 4.5.14 and samba 4.6.8 used encryption with the max protocol set as SMB3. The connection could lose the requirement for signing and encrypting to any DFS redirects, allowing an attacker to read or alter the contents of the connection via a man-in-the-middle attack.
Severity
- EPSS
- 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 90% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-310, CWE-300
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- hp:cifs_server
- redhat:enterprise_linux
- redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop
- redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus
- redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus
- redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation
- samba:samba