10.0criticalCritical
CVE-2025-10230
A flaw was found in Samba, in the front-end WINS hook handling: NetBIOS names from registration packets are passed to a shell without proper validation or escaping. Unsanitized NetBIOS name data from WINS registration packets are inserted into a shell command and executed by the Samba Active Directory Domain Controller’s wins hook, allowing an unauthenticated network attacker to achieve remote command execution as the Samba process.
What the metrics mean
- It is reachable over a network, without needing local access.
- For an attacker who can reach it, no special conditions are needed to exploit it.
- To exploit it, no account is needed.
- Beyond that, no action by a user is required.
Scoring
- CVSS
- 10.0 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H- Weakness
- CWE-78
- Assigned by
- secalert@redhat.com
Dates
- Published
- 2025-11-07
- Last modified
- 2026-08-31
- Sources
- NVD
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-10230
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2394377
- https://www.samba.org/samba/history/security.html
- https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-10230-detect-samba-vulnerability
- https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-10230-mitigate-samba-vulnerability