Authenticated Samba users can change other users’ password

Posted on Mar 14, 2018

Authenticated Samba users can change other users’ password

On a Samba 4 AD DC the LDAP server in all versions of Samba from 4.0.0 onwards incorrectly validates permissions to modify passwords over LDAP allowing authenticated users to change any other users’ passwords, including administrative users and privileged service accounts (eg Domain Controllers).

Source: samba.org