High 7.5Published Jun 8, 2026

CVE-2026-3238A flaw was found in Samba’s WINS server component when running as an Active Directory Domain Controller.

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 08:50 UTC)

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A flaw was found in Samba’s WINS server component when running as an Active Directory Domain Controller. The WINS protocol handlers for certain request types did not properly validate incoming packets, allowing an unauthenticated remote attacker to trigger a NULL pointer dereference and crash the WINS service using specially crafted UDP packets.

CVSS: 7.5 HIGH (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-476
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: Awaiting Analysis
Record last updated: Sep 1, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-3238
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2486176
https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2026-3238.html
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-3238.json

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