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CVE-2022-32744

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-32744 is a high-severity flaw in Samba that allows an authenticated attacker to change other users' passwords, potentially leading to full domain takeover. The vulnerability stems from the KDC accepting kpasswd requests encrypted with any known key. With a CVSS score of 8.8, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and no user interaction required, enabling significant impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploits or active exploitation have been observed, and community discussion is minimal, the potential for domain compromise necessitates prompt patching.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 4.3.0, < 4.14.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.15.0, < 4.15.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.16.0, < 4.16.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.96%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
57.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0096 is in the 53rd percentile among its peer group of 17,844 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 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 (5)

githubpatch availablevia llm_extracted
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 16864-17084Fixed in: 4.18.3-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 samba 4.18.3-1 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 4.18.3-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Azure Linux 3.0 x64Fixed in: 4.18.3-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Azure Linux 3.0 ARMFixed in: 4.18.3-1

Vendor Advisories (4)

microsoft2024-Oct/CVE-2022-32744

CVE-2022-32744

Oct 8, 2024
githubllm-github-ae2e8353f0c578eaHIGH

AS-2022-014: Samba

Dec 27, 2022
microsoft2022-Aug/CVE-2022-32744Important

A flaw was found in Samba. The KDC accepts kpasswd requests encrypted with any key known to it. By encrypting forged kpasswd requests with its own key a user can change other users' passwords enabling full domain takeover.

Aug 9, 2022
redhatCVE-2022-32744Important

samba: AD users can forge password change requests for any user

Jul 27, 2022

References

security.gentoo.org / glsa/202309-06
samba.org / samba/security/CVE-2022-32744.html
PatchVendor Advisory