CVE-2025-10230
10.0
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.1 · EPSS 39.7% (pctl 99)
Patch early
EPSS 39.7% — above the 10% action threshold.
Description
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 10.0 (CRITICAL, v3.1) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 39.65% — more likely to be exploited than 99% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-78 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2025-11-07 |
| Last modified | 2026-08-31 |
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
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