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CVE-2012-2111

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2111 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in Samba versions 3.4.x, 3.5.x, and 3.6.x. Specifically, the LSA RPC procedures in smbd do not adequately restrict modifications to the privileges database, allowing authenticated users to gain "take ownership" privileges. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity by an authenticated user, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:3.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:3.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:3.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:3.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:3.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.5MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.80%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0480 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 21,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: samba3x-0:3.5.10-0.109.el5_8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: samba-0:3.5.10-116.el6_2
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-2111Important

samba: Incorrect permission checks when granting/removing privileges

Apr 30, 2012

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079662.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079670.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079677.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00023.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00001.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00003.html
marc.info
osvdb.org / 81648
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-0533.html
secunia.com / advisories/48976
secunia.com / advisories/48984
secunia.com / advisories/48996
secunia.com / advisories/48999
secunia.com / advisories/49017
secunia.com / advisories/49030
collax.com / produkte/AllinOne-server-for-small-businesses
debian.org / security/2012/dsa-2463
mandriva.com / security/advisories
samba.org / samba/security/CVE-2012-2111
PatchVendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1434-1