Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-45141

Critical

Published: 06 March 2023

Published
06 March 2023
Modified
06 March 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0067 71.8th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-45141 is a critical-severity Use of Weak Hash (CWE-328) vulnerability in Samba Samba. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 28.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Since the Windows Kerberos RC4-HMAC Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability was disclosed by Microsoft on Nov 8 2022 and per RFC8429 it is assumed that rc4-hmac is weak, Vulnerable Samba Active Directory DCs will issue rc4-hmac encrypted tickets despite the target…

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server supporting better encryption (eg aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96).

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

samba
samba
≤ 4.15.13 · 4.16.0 — 4.16.8

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-326 CWE-328

Specifies required cryptography types and parameters, preventing selection of inadequate encryption strength.

addresses: CWE-328 CWE-326

Security updates supplant weak hashing algorithms with stronger alternatives before attackers can exploit the original weakness.

addresses: CWE-326

Maintaining currency with technologies and practices reduces selection of encryption mechanisms that provide inadequate strength.

addresses: CWE-326

Updated assessments identify when previously adequate encryption strength no longer meets current attack capabilities or compliance drivers.

addresses: CWE-326

Establishment procedures require selection and generation of keys with adequate length and strength for the chosen algorithm.

References