Samba Password Lockout Race Condition Enables BruteForce
CVE-2021-20251 Published on March 6, 2023
A flaw was found in samba. A race condition in the password lockout code may lead to the risk of brute force attacks being successful if special conditions are met.
Weakness Type
What is a Race Condition Vulnerability?
The program contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently.
CVE-2021-20251 has been classified to as a Race Condition vulnerability or weakness.
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