A flaw was found in the way samba handled file and directory permissions. An authenticated user could use this flaw to gain access to certain file and directory information which otherwise would be unavailable to the attacker.
CVE-2020-14318
Score 4.3 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2022-05-24. NVD baseline CVSS 4.3; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 4.3
- EG Score
- 4.3(medium)
- EPSS
- 71.6%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
December 3, 2020
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (8)
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1892631
- secalert@redhathttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/04/msg00015.html
- secalert@redhathttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-24
- secalert@redhathttps://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2020-14318.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1892631
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/04/msg00015.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-24
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2020-14318.html
Patch Availability(6)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | winbind (2:4.7.6+dfsg~ubuntu-0ubuntu2.21) @ bionic | 2026-05-23 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | winbind (2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.20+esm11) @ trusty | 2026-05-23 | ubuntu |
| redhat | samba-0:4.11.6-112.el7rhgs | 2021-10-05 | redhat |
| redhat | samba-0:4.13.3-3.el8 | 2021-05-18 | redhat |
| redhat | samba-0:4.13.7-101.el8rhgs | 2021-05-05 | redhat |
| redhat | samba-0:4.10.16-9.el7_9 | 2020-12-15 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Weakness Classification(2)
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All Vendor Advisories
(7)
Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.
- Microsoft MSRCCVE-2020-143182024-10-15
A flaw was found in the way samba handled file and directory permissions. An authenticated user could use this flaw to gain access to certain file and directory information which otherwise would be unavailable to the attacker.
- Red HatRHBA-2021:1503MODERATE2020-10-29
RHBA-2021:1503 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2020:5439MODERATE2020-10-29
RHSA-2020:5439 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2021:1647MODERATE2020-10-29
RHSA-2021:1647 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2021:3723MODERATE2020-10-29
RHSA-2021:3723 — Moderate
- UbuntuUSN-4611-1MEDIUM
Samba vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-4931-1MEDIUM
Samba vulnerabilities
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- 2026-05-23 04:42 UTCVendor advisory
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