CVE-2022-32744: Samba

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in Samba. The KDC accepts kpasswd requests encrypted with any key known to it. By encrypting forged kpasswd requests with its own key, a user can change other users' passwords, enabling full domain takeover.

Affected products

• Samba Samba: from 4.3.0, before 4.14.14 (fixed in 4.14.14); from 4.15.0, before 4.15.9 (fixed in 4.15.9); from 4.16.0, before 4.16.4 (fixed in 4.16.4)

Published 2022-08-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.