CVE-2014-0317

The Security Account Manager Remote SAMR protocol implementation in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, and Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2 does not properly determine the user-lockout state, which makes it easier for...

Microsoft Windows SAMR Protocol Security Bypass Vulnerability (2934418)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS14-016. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only...

FreeBSD : samba -- multiple vulnerabilities (03e48bf5-a96d-11e3-a556-3c970e169bc2)

Samba project reports : In Samba's SAMR server we neglect to ensure that attempted password changes will update the bad password count, nor set the lockout flags. This would allow a user unlimited attempts against the password by simply calling ChangePasswordUser2 repeatedly. This is available...

CVE-2014-0317: Improper Input Validation

The Security Account Manager Remote SAMR protocol implementation in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, and Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2 does not properly determine the user-lockout state, which makes it easier for...

MS14-016: Vulnerability in Security Account Manager Remote (SAMR) Protocol Could Allow Security Feature Bypass (2934418)

A security feature bypass vulnerability exists in Windows due to the Security Account Manager Remote SAMR protocol incorrectly validating the user lockout state. Remote, authenticated attackers can exploit this issue to conduct brute force attacks against user passwords. Note that the host must...

PT-2014-1730 · Microsoft · Windows Server 2003 +4

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Microsoft Windows XP versions SP2 through SP3 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 version SP2 Microsoft Windows Vista version SP2 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 versions SP2 through R2 SP1 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 versions Gold through R2...

CVE-2013-4496: Password lockout not enforced for SAMR password changes

Description Samba versions 3.4.0 and above allow the administrator to implement locking out Samba accounts after a number of bad password attempts. However, all released versions of Samba did not implement this check for password changes, such as are available over multiple SAMR and RAP interface...

Provide the option to temporarily lock a user account after the maximum configured login attempts

It would be very helpful to have option to configure maximum attempt of failed login and a mechanism to lock/disable user account after the maximum failed attempt is reached. Decide upon the number of login attempts to be allowed configurable, and make sure that the account will be locked once th...

Check Point response to Media Encryption EPM Explorer lockout bypass (CVE-2013-5635 and CVE-2013-5636)

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HackerOne: Login page password-guessing attack

A brute-force attack is an attempt to discover a password by systematically trying every possible combination of letters, numbers, and symbols until you discover the one correct combination that works. hackerone.com page doesn't have any protection against password-guessing attacks brute force...

CVE-2013-3185

Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services AD FS 1.x through 2.1 on Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, and Windows Server 2012 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about the service account, and possibly conduct account-lockout attacks, by...

CVE-2013-3185

Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services AD FS 1.x through 2.1 on Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, and Windows Server 2012 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about the service account, and possibly conduct account-lockout attacks, by...

PT-2012-1253 · Mendix · Mendix Runtime

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Mendix Runtime V8 versions Mendix Runtime V9 versions prior to V9.24.29 Mendix Runtime V10 versions prior to V10.16.0 Mendix Runtime V10.6 versions prior to V10.6.15 Mendix Runtime V10.12 versions prior to V10.12.7 Description: A race conditi...

Dorkbot Now Worming Its Way through Skype

The Dorkbot worm that fooled many a Facebook and Twitter user is now socially engineering Skype users into downloading the malware, whose payload now includes a mechanism to lock down machines. Various antivirus and security companies are reporting the latest iteration rummages through an infecte...

Scientific Linux Security Update : pam on SL4.x i386/x86_64

A flaw was found in the way pamconsole set console device permissions. It was possible for various console devices to retain ownership of the console user after logging out, possibly leaking information to another local user. CVE-2007-1716 A flaw was found in the way the PAM library wrote account...

CVE-2012-3018

CVE-2012-3018 affects ICONICS GENESIS32 (<= 9.22) and BizViz (

Limit Login Attempts < 1.7.1 - Auth Cookies Brute Force Bypass

From the changelog of the plugin: "Auth cookies" are special cookies set at login that authenticating you to the system. It is how WordPress "remembers" that you are logged in between page loads. During lockout these are supposed to be cleared, but a change in 1.6.2 broke this. It allowed an...

Fedora 17 : bugzilla-4.0.6-1.fc17 (2012-6282)

The following security issues have been discovered in Bugzilla : - When abusing the X-FORWARDED-FOR header, an attacker could bypass the lockout policy allowing a possible brute-force discovery of a valid user password. - An attacker can get access to some bug information using the victim's...

Fedora 16 : bugzilla-4.0.6-1.fc16 (2012-6368)

The following security issues have been discovered in Bugzilla : - When abusing the X-FORWARDED-FOR header, an attacker could bypass the lockout policy allowing a possible brute-force discovery of a valid user password. - An attacker can get access to some bug information using the victim's...

Fedora 15 : bugzilla-3.6.9-1.fc15 (2012-6396)

The following security issues have been discovered in Bugzilla : - When abusing the X-FORWARDED-FOR header, an attacker could bypass the lockout policy allowing a possible brute-force discovery of a valid user password. - An attacker can get access to some bug information using the victim's...