A design flaw was found in Samba's DirSync control implementation, which exposes passwords and secrets in Active Directory to privileged users and Read-Only Domain Controllers (RODCs). This flaw allows RODCs and users possessing the GET_CHANGES right to access all attributes, including sensitive secrets and passwords. Even in a default setup, RODC DC accounts, which should only replicate some passwords, can gain access to all domain secrets, including the vital krbtgt, effectively eliminating the RODC / DC distinction. Furthermore, the vulnerability fails to account for error conditions (fail open), like out-of-memory situations, potentially granting access to secret attributes, even under low-privileged attacker influence.
CVE-2023-4154
Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2023-11-07. NVD baseline CVSS 6.5; sources differ by 1.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 6.5
- EG Score
- 7.5(medium)
- EG Risk
- 39(Track)EG Risk 39/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity75% × 45%Exploitation1% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 1%
- EPSS %ILE
- 64%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
November 7, 2023
Last Modified
June 17, 2026
References (10)
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4154
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241883
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15424
- secalert@redhathttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231124-0002/
- secalert@redhathttps://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2023-4154.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4154
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241883
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15424
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231124-0002/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2023-4154.html
Patch Availability(2)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | winbind (2:4.17.7+dfsg-1ubuntu2.3) @ lunar | 2026-05-24 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | winbind (2:4.18.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.1) @ mantic | 2026-05-24 | ubuntu |
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.
Affected Packages
(11 across 11 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.18(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| samba | — | 4.18.8-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.19(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| samba | — | 4.18.8-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.20(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| samba | — | 4.18.8-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.21(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| samba | — | 4.18.8-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.22(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| samba | — | 4.18.8-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.23(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| samba | — | 4.18.8-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.24(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| samba | — | 4.18.8-r0 | — |
Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| samba | 2:4.13.13+dfsg-1 ... 2:4.24.5+dfsg-1~bpo13+1 (245 versions) | — | — |
Debian:12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| samba | 2:4.17.10+dfsg-0+deb12u1 ... 2:4.17.9+dfsg-0+deb12u3~bpo11+1 (10 versions) | 2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1 | — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| samba | — | 2:4.19.1+dfsg-1 | — |
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| samba | — | 2:4.19.1+dfsg-1 | — |
Weakness Classification(2)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
All Vendor Advisories
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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.
Data Freshness Timeline
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