CVE-2006-1059: Samba

Low severity, CVSS 1.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The winbindd daemon in Samba 3.0.21 to 3.0.21c writes the machine trust account password in cleartext in log files, which allows local users to obtain the password and spoof the server in the domain.

Affected products

• Samba Samba: version 3.0.21 only; version 3.0.21a only; version 3.0.21b only; version 3.0.21c only

Published 2006-03-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.