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CVE-2022-1615

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-1615 describes a vulnerability in Samba where the GnuTLS gnutls_rnd() function can fail, leading to predictable random values. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 5.5) allows a local, low-privileged attacker to achieve high confidentiality impact with low attack complexity. While affecting Fedora and Samba products, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 4.1.0, < 4.17.0CPE 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

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
33.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0041 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 19646-16823
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 samba on CBL Mariner 2.0
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: samba-0:4.17.5-2.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update SupportFixed in: samba-0:4.15.5-15.el8_6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: samba-0:4.17.5-102.el9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: samba-0:4.15.5-15.el8_6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

microsoft2022-Sep/CVE-2022-1615Moderate

In Samba, GnuTLS gnutls_rnd() can fail and give predictable random values.

Sep 13, 2022
redhatCVE-2022-1615Low

samba: GnuTLS gnutls_rnd() can fail and give predictable random values

Jul 27, 2022

References

bugzilla.samba.org / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
gitlab.com / samba-team/samba/-/merge_requests/2644
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZTTOLTHUHOV4SHCHCB5TAA4FQVJAWN4P
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202309-06
Third Party Advisory