🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2026-3238

HIGH 7.5

Samba: denial of service against ad dc wins server

CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.1%
EPSS Percentile
23th

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.

CWE CWE-476
Vendor red hat
Product red hat enterprise linux 10
Published Jun 8, 2026
Last Updated Jun 8, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Affected Versions

Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
All versions affected

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
access.redhat.com: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-3238 bugzilla.redhat.com: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2486176 samba.org: https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2026-3238.html

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank Arad Inbar (DREAM Security Research Team), Ben Grinberg (DREAM Security Research Team), Erez Cohen (DREAM Security Research Team), and Nir Somech (DREAM Security Research Team) for reporting this issue.