CVE-2021-20254
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-20254
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-20254.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-20254
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2021-05-05T14:15:07Z
- Modified
- 2025-10-15T04:33:30Z
- Severity
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- 6.8 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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A flaw was found in samba. The Samba smbd file server must map Windows group identities (SIDs) into unix group ids (gids). The code that performs this had a flaw that could allow it to read data beyond the end of the array in the case where a negative cache entry had been added to the mapping cache. This could cause the calling code to return those values into the process token that stores the group membership for a user. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity.
- References
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- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1949442
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00023.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-22
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210430-0001/
- https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2021-20254.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3EP2VJ73OVBPVSOSTVOMGIEQA3MWF6F7/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZAF6L2M6CNAJ2YYYGXPWETTW5YLCWTVT/