CVE-2025-10230A 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.
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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.
- CVSS
- 10.0 CRITICAL (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-78
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- Not given
- NVD analysis
- Deferred
- Record last updated
- Oct 18, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
No affected products are listed yet.
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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