CVE-2018-1140

6.5 mediumEPSS 11%

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

Severity

CVSS 3.0

6.5 medium

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

EPSS: 11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 95% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-20
Published: 2018-08-22
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

samba:samba

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105082
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1140
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13374
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-52
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180814-0001/

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