CVE-2021-20251
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-03-06 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 17:37
Severity ?
Summary
A flaw was found in samba. A race condition in the password lockout code may lead to the risk of brute force attacks being successful if special conditions are met.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1929800Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14611Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-06
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230331-0005/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
n/asamba
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