Bug 1649278 (CVE-2018-16857)

Summary:	CVE-2018-16857 samba: Bad password count in AD DC not always effective
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	abhgupta, abokovoy, anoopcs, asn, bmcclain, dbaker, dblechte, dfediuck, eedri, gdeschner, jarrpa, jokerman, jstephen, lmohanty, madam, mgoldboi, michal.skrivanek, rhs-smb, sankarshan, sbonazzo, sbose, security-response-team, sherold, sisharma, smohan, ssaha, ssorce, sthangav, trankin, vbellur
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	samba 4.9.3	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	It was found that the 'bad password observation window' was ineffective when set to a value greater than 3 minutes. This could allow for brute force password attacks in some situations.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1654095
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Description Andrej Nemec 2018-11-13 10:12:08 UTC

A vulnerability was found in the AD DC Configurations of Samba 4.9.0 and later. Watching for bad passwords (to restrict brute forcing of passwords) in a window of more than 15 minutes instead doesn't watch for bad passwords at all.

Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2018-11-13 10:14:18 UTC

Mitigation:

Bad password lockout is not configured by default, it is only
effective if a threshold has been set with (eg):

samba-tool domain passwordsettings set --account-lockout-threshold=3

To mitigate the issue set a shorter 'Reset account lockout after'
window (the ineffective default is 30, anything less than 15 will
work):

samba-tool domain passwordsettings set --reset-account-lockout-after=15

NOTE: If a fine-grained password policy (PSO) is set, this must also
be done on each PSO.

Comment 3 Sam Fowler 2018-11-28 03:04:33 UTC

External Reference:

https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2018-16857.html

Comment 4 Sam Fowler 2018-11-28 03:04:56 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: the Samba project
Upstream: Isaac Boukris

Comment 5 Sam Fowler 2018-11-28 03:05:25 UTC

Created samba tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1654095]

Comment 6 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2018-11-28 07:40:52 UTC

Statement:

This flaw does not affect the version of samba shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux because there is no support for samba as Active Directory Domain Controller.