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CVE-2026-4408

Severity
critical
Source
NVD · cve
Published
2026-05-28
CVSS
9.0
Reference
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-4408
⚡ RCE shame 50/100 rce

A flaw was found in Samba. A remote attacker can exploit a misconfiguration in Samba file servers and classic domain controllers that use the "check password script" feature. If this script is configured with the %u substitution character, the client-controlled username is passed

Players implicated

redhat · vendorsamba · vendorenterprise linux · productopenshift container platform · productsamba · product

Description

A flaw was found in Samba. A remote attacker can exploit a misconfiguration in Samba file servers and classic domain controllers that use the "check password script" feature. If this script is configured with the %u substitution character, the client-controlled username is passed without proper escaping of shell meta-characters. This vulnerability allows an attacker to achieve remote command execution on the affected system. This issue primarily affects non-standard configurations where the "check password script" is used with %u and the samba-dcerpcd service is started as a system service.

Affected FedRAMP products 0 in the catalog

No correlated FedRAMP products.