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CVE-2018-14628

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-14628 is an information leak vulnerability in Samba's LDAP server, affecting various Fedora and Samba products. An authenticated, unprivileged attacker could exploit missing access control checks to discover names and attributes of deleted LDAP objects. Rated Medium severity (CVSS 4.3), it requires network access and low privileges, with a low impact on confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 4.0.0, < 4.18.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.19.0, < 4.19.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
37CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.17%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
64.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0117 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 21,974 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 (4)

fedorapatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 samba 4.12.5-6 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 4.12.5-6
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 16863-16823Fixed in: 4.12.5-6
redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

microsoft2023-Jan/CVE-2018-14628Moderate

An information leak vulnerability was discovered in Samba's LDAP server. Due to missing access control checks, an authenticated but unprivileged attacker could discover the names and preserved attributes of deleted objects in the LDAP store.

Jan 10, 2023
redhatCVE-2018-14628Moderate

samba: Unprivileged read of deleted object tombstones in AD LDAP server

Apr 13, 2022

References

security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20230223-0008
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.samba.org / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/6DK57HQRTCDOZDIIICYWQ4Z5IQXTWVVW
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/ACVMYEP5KJRL3FWSCZW2MQZ26IVPXY62
PatchThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2023/11/28/4
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