CVE-2026-3012
Samba: group policy certificate enrollment uses http:// without validation
HIGH 8.0
At a glance
- Source
- NVD
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.26 % · percentile 18 ()
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- redhat
- NVD status
- Modified
Description
A flaw was found in Samba’s certificate auto-enrollment Group Policy handling. When certificate auto-enrollment is enabled, Samba may retrieve a CA certificate over an unencrypted HTTP connection and install it into the local trust store without proper verification. An attacker with the ability to intercept or redirect network traffic could exploit this behavior to supply a malicious certificate authority certificate, potentially allowing interception or spoofing of trusted communications.
Weaknesses (CWE)
- CWE-345 — Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22644
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22963
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25049
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25979
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:28053
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:28054
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:28055
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:28056
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:28057
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:29863
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:56786
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:56853
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:56911
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:57483
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:59831
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60019
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:62409
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:62549
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:65839
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:65851
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:65907
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:67857
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:70586
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:77320
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-3012
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2447319
- https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16003
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-3012.json
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 8.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N | redhat |
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 8.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N | redhat-SADP |
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 8.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N | NVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary) |
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 6.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N | NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary) |
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 8.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N | NVD · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c (Secondary) |
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-32211
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-3012
CERT-FR advisories
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-0986 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-0651 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Samba · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
Affected configurations (NVD CPE)
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*≥ 4.16.0 < 4.21.0cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Affected products
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| CERT-FR (ANSSI) | Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |