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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-1139

A flaw was found in the way samba before 4.7.9 and 4.8.4 allowed the use of weak NTLMv1 authentication even when NTLMv1 was explicitly disabled. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to read the credential and other details passed between the samba server and client.

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CVE-2018-1139

core-osv · Original source

Published 22 Aug 2018, 14:29 UTC

A flaw was found in the way samba before 4.7.9 and 4.8.4 allowed the use of weak NTLMv1 authentication even when NTLMv1 was explicitly disabled. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to read the credential and other details passed between the samba server and client.

osv:CVE-2018-1139
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-1139",
  "method": "structured",
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      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:56.212847652Z",
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        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-52",
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        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3738-1/",
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 438608,
  "published_at": "2018-08-22T14:29:00.363+00:00"
}