CVE-2012-2111: Samba

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 4.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The (1) CreateAccount, (2) OpenAccount, (3) AddAccountRights, and (4) RemoveAccountRights LSA RPC procedures in smbd in Samba 3.4.x before 3.4.17, 3.5.x before 3.5.15, and 3.6.x before 3.6.5 do not properly restrict modifications to the privileges database, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain the "take ownership" privilege via an LSA connection.

Affected products

• Samba Samba: version 3.4.0 only; version 3.4.1 only; version 3.4.2 only; version 3.4.3 only; version 3.4.4 only; version 3.4.5 only; …

Published 2012-04-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.