Medium
Security advisory
A flaw was found in the way samba implemented SMB1 authentication. An attacker could use this flaw to retrieve the plaintext password sent over the wire even if Kerberos authentication was required.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-2124
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:39 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was found in the way samba implemented SMB1 authentication. An attacker could use this flaw to retrieve the plaintext password sent over the wire even if Kerberos authentication was required.
osv:CVE-2016-2124
Complete source record
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