CVE-2025-0620
MediumCVSS 4.9Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Elevated risk51th percentile - higher than 51% of all known CVEs
Summary
A flaw in Samba causes the smbd daemon to ignore group membership changes when re-authenticating an expired SMB session. This can expose file shares until clients disconnect and reconnect.
Risk Assessment
The organization risks unauthorized access to file shares as users may retain permissions after group membership changes.
Recommendation
Update Samba to a patched version and enforce client reconnection after group changes.
Other vulnerabilities in Samba
See all- CVE-2026-58222High
A vulnerability in Samba Active Directory Domain Controller (AD DC) combines LDAP filter injection with improper authorization checks, allowing an authenticated low-privilege domain user to disclose confidential AD attributes such as msKds-RootKeyData, potentially leading to privilege escalation and full domain compromise.
- CVE-2017-15275High
Samba before 4.7.3 might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging failure of the server to clear allocated heap memory.
- CVE-2016-2119High
In Samba library versions 4.x before 4.2.14, 4.3.x before 4.3.11, and 4.4.x before 4.4.5, a vulnerability allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass a client-signing protection mechanism. This enables spoofing of SMB2 and SMB3 servers.
- CVE-2016-2113High
Samba versions 4.x before 4.2.11, 4.3.x before 4.3.8, and 4.4.x before 4.4.2 do not verify X.509 certificates from TLS servers, allowing man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof LDAPS and HTTPS servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate.
- CVE-2015-8467High
The samldb_check_user_account_control_acl function in Samba 4.x before 4.1.22, 4.2.x before 4.2.7, and 4.3.x before 4.3.3 does not properly check for administrative privileges during the creation of machine accounts. This allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions.
- CVE-2015-5252High
In Samba versions 3.x and 4.x before 4.1.22, 4.2.x before 4.2.7, and 4.3.x before 4.3.3, a vulnerability allows remote attackers to bypass intended file-access restrictions via a symlink pointing outside of a share when certain substring relationships in share names exist.
- CVE-2015-0240High
The Netlogon server implementation in smbd in Samba 3.5.x and 3.6.x before 3.6.25, 4.0.x before 4.0.25, 4.1.x before 4.1.17, and 4.2.x before 4.2.0rc5 performs a free operation on an uninitialized stack pointer, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted Netlogon packets.
- CVE-2014-8143High
Samba versions 4.0.x before 4.0.24, 4.1.x before 4.1.16, and 4.2.x before 4.2rc4, when an Active Directory Domain Controller (AD DC) is configured, allow remote authenticated users to set the LDB userAccountControl UF_SERVER_TRUST_ACCOUNT bit, consequently gaining privileges.
- CVE-2026-58221Medium
A low-privilege authenticated Samba AD user can modify internal LDB special DNs via LDAP access, enabling a domain takeover.
- CVE-2026-4408Critical
A flaw in Samba allows remote command execution due to improper escaping of shell meta-characters in the 'check password script' feature when using the %u substitution. This affects non-standard configurations with samba-dcerpcd running as a system service.
Original NVD description (English source)
A flaw was found in Samba. The smbd service daemon does not pick up group membership changes when re-authenticating an expired SMB session. This issue can expose file shares until clients disconnect and then connect again.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS

