High
Security advisory
A flaw was found in the way Samba maps domain users to local users. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw to cause possible privilege escalation.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-25717
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:25 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was found in the way Samba maps domain users to local users. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw to cause possible privilege escalation.
osv:CVE-2020-25717
Complete source record
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