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CVE-2018-1139

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-1139 describes a critical flaw in Samba versions prior to 4.7.9 and 4.8.4, affecting Canonical, Red Hat, and Samba products. Despite explicit disabling, Samba improperly allowed weak NTLMv1 authentication, creating a significant security vulnerability. This high-severity vulnerability, rated 8.1 CVSS, permits a man-in-the-middle attacker to intercept and read sensitive credentials and other data due to its network-based attack vector and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently 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
>= 4.7.0, < 4.7.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.8.0, < 4.8.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.4MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
2.5
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.10%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0311 is in the 45th percentile among its peer group of 8,920 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (9)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: samba-0:4.8.3-4.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 6Fixed in: libtalloc-0:2.1.11-1.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 6Fixed in: libtdb-0:1.3.15-4.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 6Fixed in: libtevent-0:0.9.35-1.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 6Fixed in: samba-0:4.7.5-110.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 7Fixed in: libtalloc-0:2.1.11-1.el7rhgs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 7Fixed in: libtdb-0:1.3.15-4.el7rhgs
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 7Fixed in: libtevent-0:0.9.35-1.el7rhgs
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 7Fixed in: samba-0:4.7.5-110.el7rhgs
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-1139Moderate

samba: Weak authentication protocol regression

Aug 16, 2018

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:2612
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:2613
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:3056
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202003-52
Third Party Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20180814-0001
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3738-1
Third Party Advisory
samba.org / samba/security/CVE-2018-1139.html
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/105084
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry