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TI-2022-22216 Aliases CVE-2022-45141GHSA-g5hg-3x62-v52f

Since the Windows Kerberos RC4-HMAC Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability was disclosed by…

Priority MEDIUM 49CWE-328Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Information disclosure
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-326.

Summary

Since the Windows Kerberos RC4-HMAC Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability was disclosed by Microsoft on Nov 8 2022 and per RFC8429 it is assumed that rc4-hmac is weak, Vulnerable Samba Active Directory DCs will issue rc4-hmac encrypted tickets despite the target server supporting better encryption (eg aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96).

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00454 39th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
—SambaFixed in samba 4.15.13, samba 4.16.8, samba 4.15.13—No fix listedCNA
  • Samba Vendor— Affected Fixed in samba 4.15.13, samba 4.16.8, samba 4.15.13 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 4.15.13; 4.16.0 to before 4.16.8VulnerableSamba
  • cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 4.15.13; 4.16.0 to before 4.16.8 Vulnerable ·Samba

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Important. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Not affected: 5 products
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat Storage 3

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2022-45141
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-g5hg-3x62-v52f

References

Advisory 2

  • TI-2020-01431 Netlogon Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
  • TI-2017-05139 Code injection in samba KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2015-00210 The Netlogon server implementation in smbd in Samba 3.5.x and 3.6.x before 3.6.25, 4.0.x… CVSS 2.0HIGH 10.0
  • TI-2003-00081 Buffer overflow in the SMB/CIFS packet fragment re-assembly code for SMB daemon (smbd) in… CVSS 2.0HIGH 10.0
  • TI-2003-00185 Buffer overflow in the call_trans2open function in trans2.c for Samba 2.2.x before… CVSS 2.0HIGH 10.0
  • TI-2007-02362 Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the NDR parsing in smbd in Samba 3.0.0 through… CVSS 2.0HIGH 10.0
See all 215 →

Sources

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