Bug 1649278 (CVE-2018-16857) - CVE-2018-16857 samba: Bad password count in AD DC not always effective
Summary: CVE-2018-16857 samba: Bad password count in AD DC not always effective
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-16857
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1654095
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-11-13 10:12 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-16 22:47 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: samba 4.9.3
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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.
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Last Closed: 2018-11-28 07:40:40 UTC
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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.
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