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CVE-2023-3347 — A vulnerability was found in Samba's SMB2 packet signing mechanism

A vulnerability was found in Samba's SMB2 packet signing mechanism. The SMB2 packet signing is not enforced if an admin configured "server signing = required" or for SMB2 connections to Domain Controllers where SMB2 packet signing is mandatory. This flaw allows an

CVSS
5.9 MEDIUM
EPSS
42.00% (top 38.50%)
CWE
CWE-347
Published
2023-07-20T14:54:05.525Z
Last modified
2025-11-20T17:26:17.194Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

01What is this vulnerability?

A vulnerability was found in Samba's SMB2 packet signing mechanism. The SMB2 packet signing is not enforced if an admin configured "server signing = required" or for SMB2 connections to Domain Controllers where SMB2 packet signing is mandatory. This flaw allows an attacker to perform attacks, such as a man-in-the-middle attack, by intercepting the network traffic and modifying the SMB2 messages…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 80:4.17.5-3.el8_8
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 80:4.17.5-3.el8_8
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 90:4.17.5-103.el9_2
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 90:4.17.5-103.el9_2
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Storage 3unspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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